AIRE

41°22′14″N 2°09′00″E are the coordinates of the Mies Van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona and give title to the artistic intervention I will carry out on another intervention, the work Psicoarquitectura by Oscar Abraham Pavón, a piece that, in turn, intervenes on Mies's pavilion. This building constitutes in itself another intervention: the building’s intervention on the space where it was erected. A building constructed in 1929, which was dismantled a year later and rebuilt in 1986 at its current location.

The piece by Oscar Abraham Pavón, which I will intervene on, mainly displays a brick wall over an aquatic area of the pavilion where its form is reflected. This piece makes me reconsider the innate power of the creative act and how the materiality of things alters this fact. I would like to explore the effect and resonance produced by the body in collision with such primordial and archetypal elements as water, brick, or marble. I want to create a drift through the building, inhabiting it through its transformative character and its memory, confronting it with my architectural experience, which in this case condenses in the element of the wall.

The temple, the museum, the library, or even the wall are architectural constructs that, in some way, have represented me during a period of my life. Specifically, the wall is an artistic support and also a meeting place. Over the years, I have developed a particular relationship with it due to my proximity to the practice of graffiti.

I have written on a wall countless times, mostly my name—a name that has changed over time, becoming abstract, unspeakable, even mute.

The wall has represented for me both a force of attraction and of resistance. The wall contains power, it holds; it is a load-bearing wall, a wall of lament and of desire. The wall protests, displays, and also hides, it keeps. Walls rise and fall, walls of passage and border walls.

The creative act, like energy, is neither created nor destroyed, it only transforms. Ideas are everywhere, we inhabit them one way or another, they transform us and we materialize them in many ways. It may happen that a building is where they arise or inhabit, but it can also be that it is through a building that they take shape.

Credits

Creation and performance: Manuel Rodriguez
Artistic accompaniment: Javier Pividal
Sound: Aire
Photos: Pablo de Pastors