Bruna Canepa and Ciro Miguel

Sao Paulo (SP)

Apartamento de 1 Km/Casa Cidade/Casa Fluxos
[Half-Mile Apartment/House City/Flow House], 2014

Starting from the extreme tensioning of scales and functions, this dwelling unit represents the city. In this series of drawings and collage, the meaning ascribed to the city goes beyond its geography. The main role in this scene is played by the symbolic element. In the use of typical and ciphered 2D representations of architecture and urbanism, fiction is stressed by optical distortions deriving from isometric perspective (in which the viewer is placed in the infinite). Owing to heightened individualism, we can think that the house is transformed into the universe of man. In contrast – knowing that, currently, more than half of the world’s population lives in cities – we would have, then, the triumph of urbanization contaminating the individual in his most intimate level.

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Half-Mile Apartment | photo: scanning

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