Untitled, from the project Tapiar Buenos Aires [Brick-up Buenos Aires]

The artwork belongs to Tapiar Buenos Aires [Brick Up Buenos Aires], an ongoing project whose objective is to survey all the bricked-up façades of the city.

By obstructing and/or blocking the access to an interior space, the brick walls contradict one of the main purposes of architecture and turn the buildings into objects of contemplation, as a kind of ephemeral monuments that constitutes a changing and unpredictable heritage that the city creates without even realizing. 

The inflatable arises from the classic drawing used to teach us how to represent a home in the early years of school. It is a wall-house that is bricked-up, and with this, it does not merely/only aim to point out this particular phenomenon of the city but also the invitation that a bricked-up building represents—the possibility of inhabiting the space of strolling, the space where encounters with others are celebrated, and the ritual of eternal wandering too.

Technicals Details

Assemblage. Inflatable PVC sculpture, several heat sealing

techniques; brick and concrete ceramic wall, various masonry

techniques.

* Exhibited in Buenos Aires Argentina and London, UK.