Abstract

IRURETAGOIENA LABEAGA, Zuhar  and  ELORZA IBANEZ DE GAUNA, Concepción. Lara Almarcegui: The possibilities that inhabit the interstitial. Estúdio [online]. 2018, vol.9, n.21, pp.157-167. ISSN 1647-6158.

What is really a building, just the sum of its materials? How do places crystallize moments of history? Is it possible to assume an active conscience in relation to certain locations and through their mediation? Can they endow us with an agency to redefine the role that has been assigned to us in urban designs? Issues that are at the center of the artistic activity of Lara Almarcegui and in relation to which the artist constructed, in the context of the Venice Biennale 2013, the two axes of her participation in it, that is, an installation -housed by the Spanish pavilion itselfwhich incorporated the materials that make it up and their exact weights; and a video that refers to a specific wasteland, the island that is the product of the deposition of Murano glass remains. Both plastic approaches allowed Almarcegui to project a critical, anthropological, contemplation on the conception of civilization and its avatars.

Keywords : Lara Almarcegui; memory; agency; material; place; history.

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