Architectural Allegory, Velada de Santa Lucía, Intervention of public space/ black tape on sheets of zinc, 340 x 200 cm, Maracaibo, Venezuela, 2008.
This proposal approaches the materiality of the facade as it relates to our perception of the contemporary city. The physical properties and surface qualities of the object refer to the cities of misery that develop on the slums at the outskirts of most large Latin America cities (All constructed of the poorest materials) The architectural drawing refers to an architectural style that is deteriorating. This intervention alludes simultaneously to concepts of past and present, periphery and center, colonial architecture, and homes of misery in the contemporary city. It is an image in which disparaged values of memory, time and space meet.
Mirror Spaces, XII salón SuperCable, Jóvenes con F.I.A. “En la vía”, Sala CORP BANCA la Castellana, intervention in gallery, black tape on sheets of zinc, 700 x 560 cm, Caracas, Venezuela, 2009.
The proposal incorporates the initial ideas of the work "Architectural Allegory". This time, intending to harvest new readings arising from its placement on the private space of a gallery. The rendering of the facade of a colonial house was reproduced in full 1:1 scale, thus highlighting the contrast between public and private space as it relates to urban scale.
