Biocenosis @ Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre in Brasil
15. September – 20. November 22
The 24 m2 installation is the model of a city formed by 430 buildings of different typologies made out of metal, aluminum, 3D printing, acrylic, steel and LEDs. A large team of architects, welders, electronic engineers, acoustic researchers, physicists, chemists, artists and assistants worked for over 6000 hours to achieve the production of the project: an eco-sensitive urban landscape ravaged by a climatic phenomenon that keeps it flooded under the effects of a permanent storm. “…in the model of this city half-submerged into the disaster,” writes Pedro Donoso, “we unfold as observers of a time machine and as subjects of an advanced desire for survival. Our architecture will be a social sculpture of metal and lights that shine day and night. From a possible model, the replica wants to introduce us here in the seductive beauty that awaits us in a society whose functioning network shows itself to be both machine-like and sensitive at the same time, like a great multisensory organism.”
