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Ephemeral architectures

Utopía: Prohibido el paso

35 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, architecture continues to be used as a tool of separation and exclusion. Powers such as the United States and Israel continue to build walls that divide the world into “the good half and the bad half,” as Rem Koolhaas put it in his work Exodus. Our country also participates in this logic, erecting fences to curb immigration and thus reinforcing a border that makes what is prohibited even more desirable.

The wall acts as a symbol of an inaccessible utopia for those who remain outside (or inside) and project their aspirations to the other side. In a world marked by borders and inequalities, this proposal invites us to reflect on the utopia we really inhabit.


Rebuilding a previously demolished wall refers to the constant capacity to repeat past mistakes. What was once eliminated in search of modernity is today reconstructed as a visual and physical obstacle that discomforts, provokes and calls for critical action.


The wall thus becomes a discursive support, a space for expression and open debate, to which artists, thinkers and citizens are summoned. An installation with a critical vocation that highlights the limits and injustices of our present.


Once the intervention is over, the panels are preserved as an active memory, just like the fragments of the Berlin Wall, distributed around the world as a testimony of a history that still challenges.

 

 

Comisariado

Sebastián Bayo

Date

23-10-2025 / 13-11-2025

Location

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