Urban Dwellings, 2009
9 photo-mounts, 100x104,76 cm.
Video DVDPAL, 11’48’’
Undetermined spaces appear in the heart of the cities, abandoned spaces which remain a part of the institutional administration of the city. These no-places are an in-between that live in a latent way because can allocate new opportunities when citizens make them theirs to give them some use.
Urban Dwelings The project generates eight of these kinds of places; places of transition, sometimes the result of a demolishing process caused by the new needs of citizens, sometimes are temporary non-used places. Contemporary ruins where it is visible what the city was, when stories come throughout its footprint, which was made on internal walls and are now visible to everyone and what they can bee in a future. Adding quotidian elements to this places, we generate spaces of memory and possibilities where it suggest past stories and presume a future. Eight spaces/living quarters which appear related all them throughout an element in common: an old TV; a window to the external world in every house. In this case it became an open window to the original landscape origin of the next space.
