16.9.2021
Bo Bardi in the Present, por Roca Gallery
On architecture exhibitions and the approximation of cultures.
A reflection on the reach of architecture exhibitions always brings us to a metalinguistic impasse: a spatial intervention about space is like a book about writing, or a music about harmony. As architects, we are invited to consider ways in which we may be able to conduct people through a spatial sequence with a heightened awareness of bodily presentness. Simultaneously, a retreat from the apprehension of this locale, towards the imagination of another space—exhibition content—revealed through drawings, models, photographs and other media is desirable. A lesson and challenge is hidden for the architect in the process of design: how can high architecture culture—usually trapped in the inner voices of architects or overly academic reflections—address itself to the everyday lives of universal audiences? A sense of empathy is the beginning of what draws interest into the architectural content displayed. The wish to inhabit an imagined space is at the heart of the experience.
We navigate times of excess, where the ability to apprehend content diminishes by the hour. Children and adults spend time in loops of constant content replacement. Our phones, computers, apps, messaging and many other digital habits, tend to decrease our ability to focus, listen or simply be present. Space can be understood as an antidote to this absence. The pandemic has heightened the value of presence. How much we hold on to these lessons, how much we transform our ways of being communal and defend, towards the future, the value of being-there, is part of a cultural challenge that architecture exhibitions must respond to.
This document was first published in www.rocagallery.com.
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