My research and artistic practice focuses on the importance of architecture as a protagonist of change through the study of architectural and urban utopias, such as "The Garden Cities of To-Morrow" by Ebenezer Howard, or "The Metropolis of Tomorrow' by Hugh Ferris or the transcendental philosophy of glass of the expressionist architects who formed the collective "Crystal Chain," and thus reflect on what these utopian thoughts can contribute or contradict / pervert in relation to the environment and industrial extractivism. I seek a transcendental understanding of the new post-natural landscape in relation to the imagination and the (post)human spirit in the Capitalocene.
At my current studio space in Madrid and in the outdoors I have been able to create sculptures and sound art that utilize both industrial and organic materials so to explore the uneasy interaction between them, looking for ways for them to coexist while understanding their different temporalities and paradox synchronic encounters; the toughness and frailty of clay, concrete or glass, and the warmth and crispness of a branch, a patch of moss, etc. I hope to create experiences that stimulate more-than-mind thoughts on possible futures in relation to; the object and the subject, the local and the global, the microbial and the human, the natural and post-natural, the person and the state, the abstract and the concrete, exploring similarities and differences between these scales of narration.
Deriving from these utopian, urbanistic and architectural research I seek to advance my understanding of a conceptual space where intervention in the landscape crosses the urban border and becomes public intervention and experience. My most recent projects have been hybrids between the creation of ephemeral "gardens-landscapes", sound art, performance and narrative experience. I am interested in investigating through a landscape practice, the limits that divide the different temporalities (digital and vital, public and private, cosmopolitan and natural) of the human experience on earth.
At my current studio space in Madrid and in the outdoors I have been able to create sculptures and sound art that utilize both industrial and organic materials so to explore the uneasy interaction between them, looking for ways for them to coexist while understanding their different temporalities and paradox synchronic encounters; the toughness and frailty of clay, concrete or glass, and the warmth and crispness of a branch, a patch of moss, etc. I hope to create experiences that stimulate more-than-mind thoughts on possible futures in relation to; the object and the subject, the local and the global, the microbial and the human, the natural and post-natural, the person and the state, the abstract and the concrete, exploring similarities and differences between these scales of narration.
Deriving from these utopian, urbanistic and architectural research I seek to advance my understanding of a conceptual space where intervention in the landscape crosses the urban border and becomes public intervention and experience. My most recent projects have been hybrids between the creation of ephemeral "gardens-landscapes", sound art, performance and narrative experience. I am interested in investigating through a landscape practice, the limits that divide the different temporalities (digital and vital, public and private, cosmopolitan and natural) of the human experience on earth.