2018_09_18_ARQ_exposicion_tech_no_logical
Tech-No-Logical (?): The city through its facilities
The University's School of Architecture hosts a photographic exhibition that reflects on the city through installations.
The School of Architecture of the University of Navarra hosts a photographicexhibition that aims to reflect on the one hand on the characterization of urban facilities in the cities where they are located and whether they have an aesthetic value. On the other hand, it questions the reasons that cause the same installation to be executed differently in each country.
The exhibition "Tech-no-logical (?)" explores these questions through urban installations in Israel. The project was born from César Martín Gómez, researcher and professor at the School together with Amaia Zuazua Ros and Maider Istúriz Caballero who in a research stay in Israel went out to the city to portray installations in their free time. "Halfway between art and document allows that a given landscape can also be read as an inventory of elements located in the city".
The exhibition delves into the functioning of the city, its shortcomings and values... In an era where mass production strips urban installations of their personality, this sample speaks of identity. And if the viewer did not have the geographical context of the sample it would be almost impossible to define the location.
Professor Conrado Capilla, in the text that introduces exhibition , recalls "framework Polo in Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, highlighting the atmospheric and emotional quality of the atlas held by the Great Emperor Kublai Khan:
"Traveling one realizes that the differences are lost: each city becomes similar to all cities, the places exchange shape, order, distances, a uniform dust invades the continents. Your atlas keeps the differences intact: that assortment of qualities that are like the letters of the name".
The sample, executed by María Duro and Miren Azcona, takes its idea from the mythical La Mission photographique de la DATAR that collects the French landscape of the 80's seen from the camera of 29 photographers who put the focus on the representation of the everyday: the experience of the people who lived in France.