Participan: Carola Bravo (Venezuela) Ofill Echevarría (Cuba), Nereida García Ferraz (Cuba), Florencio Gelabert (Cuba), Juan Raúl Hoyos (Colombia), Pablo León de la Barra (Mexico), Ronald Morán (El Salvador)  Fernando Otero (Perú), Ernesto Oroza (Cuba), Gamaliel Rodríguez (Puerto Rico), Viviana Zargón (Argentina)

Curada por Alluna Curatorial Collective (Adriana Herrera & Willy Castellanos), con el apoyo de Sandra Rojas.

AFFECTIVE ARCHITECTURE II

Curated by Aluna Curatorial Collective (Adriana Herrera & Willy Castellanos).

With the support of Corvus Art

Walter Benjamin said that architecture was the oldest of arts because the human need for shelter is timeless. And yet, immersed in the architectures that model our cities, we perceive them without discovering to what extent they contain and alter the acts of our existence.

13 artists from Latin America and the Caribbean will display artworks that are in fact residues of a relational experience within the architectures of their cities. Each one of them reveals the potential reserves of creativity that often manifest themselves in the midst of chaos or necessity and reflect an affective gaze on the cities. The artists re-create, without indifference —from the closeness of affectivity, but also from the distant perspective of memory—, architectures that contain ‘life deposits’, stored memories of life experiences in spaces, which often fuse with social histories everywhere in the world.

“Affective Architectures II” functions as a mirror reflecting our biographies within the failure of the grand narratives in Latin American and Caribbean cities, but also as a window into alternative passages: strategies of the imagination that may allow us to reinvent our ways of inhabiting the world.