Téctonica

May 28th - August 10th, 2024

EL APARTAMENTO

Calle de la Puebla, 4, local bajo derecha. Madrid. Spain

As part of PHotoESPAÑA 2024, the gallery presents the work by uan Baraja, Nuno Cera, Estudio Herreros, Tomáz Hipólito, Francisco Nogueira, Rodrigo Oliveira y Dagoberti Rodríguez. Through photographs, videos or studio models, the curator, Verónica de Melo, addresses how the tectonics of the projects are shaped and expressed: in their construction, in their relationship with the landscape, in the work of their structure with the forces that make their existence in space possible.

For the title, the curator Verónica de Melo takes as a reference the term tectonics, which derives from the Greek word Tekton, meaning carpenter or builder. In architecture, this word has been associated with the concepts of structure and solidity, and her approach seeks to highlight the relationship between construction and the morphology of architecture. Tectonics is concerned with the proper use and understanding of materials, it explores the capacities that the constructive elements give to the project to create an architecture of great honesty, without staging systems on the reality of its construction and load. Poetry and architectural psychology can in a certain way create the illusion of lightness, but always sustained by a capacity for architectural drawing and mastery of construction, without artifice but with the beauty that is the fruit of truth.

Tectónica seeks to understand, with the help of the work of Juan Baraja, Nuno Cera, Estudio Herreros, Tomáz Hipólito, Francisco Nogueira, Rodrigo Oliveira and Dagoberto Rodríguez, this notion that has been so hotly debated throughout the ages. The visitor will be able to see in photography, video or studio models how the tectonics of the projects are shaped and expressed in their construction, in their relationship with the landscape, with the environment, in the work of their structure with the forces that make their existence in space possible.

In keeping with the mission of the 2024 edition of PhotoEspaña, which seeks to awaken critical awareness of the true expressive and social scope of photography, Tectónica shows the work of photographers, artists and architects and proposes this same reflection, using to its advantage a concept of architecture and construction that has led philosophers, theorists and critics to investigate the ability to see without artifice.

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