Guided tour of Brutal/Feral: Architectures of Survival With Andrés Hispano

This exhibition is dedicated to two imaginaries in apparent confrontation, that of brutalist architecture and that of feral cities, forest cities or feral cities. One imaginary that has not yet died, the other that has not yet been born. It is an illusory confrontation, since in both cases an architecture of survival is cultivated in which the feeling that catastrophe is inevitable beats. The walls devoured by the earth and vegetation are guessed in both cases, evoking a common territory, that of abandoned gardens, that of Piranesi’s engravings. A fin-de-siècle melancholy still present in this 21st century, in which new visions of the old dichotomy between nature and culture are opening up to understand everything as a single reality, natural or post-natural, far from the narratives that understand the human and technological outside of the natural, magical and wild.

While this happens, art and fiction gravitate towards these architectures of survival, evoking the allure of a collision full of paradoxes and contradictions: sophisticated villains, domestic bunkers, humans in nests or on islands that act as nests, nests in industrial ruins, posters with roots and electronic jungles.