The meeting of two worlds. A world of many worlds by elii and María Jerez
04/07/2020.
[Madrid] Spain
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AWOMAWO, acronym for A World Of MAny WOrlds, is the proposal of the architecture firm elii, together with the artist María Jerez, for the edition of CasaDecor 2020, which has taken place in the emblematic 20th-century building of the architect José Espelíus Anduaga, located in the Salamanca district of Madrid.
The space aims to invite visitors to reflect on the world to come in the 21st century and bet on sustainability. It is a meeting place for different worlds that is configured as a double environment, a space within another space, where light, plants and minerals allow creating a unique experience.
The space aims to invite visitors to reflect on the world to come in the 21st century and bet on sustainability. It is a meeting place for different worlds that is configured as a double environment, a space within another space, where light, plants and minerals allow creating a unique experience.
A world of many worlds by elii. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal
A world of many worlds by elii. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal
A world of many worlds by elii. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal
A world of many worlds by elii. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal
A world of many worlds by elii. Photograph by Pablo Gómez-Ogando
A world of many worlds by elii. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal
A world of many worlds by elii. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal
A world of many worlds by elii. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal
A world of many worlds by elii. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal
A world of many worlds by elii. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal
A world of many worlds by elii. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal
A world of many worlds by elii. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal
A world of many worlds by elii. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal
A world of many worlds by elii. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal
A world of many worlds by elii. Photograph by Pablo Gómez-Ogando
A world of many worlds by elii. Photograph by Pablo Gómez-Ogando
A world of many worlds by elii. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal
A world of many worlds by elii. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal
A world of many worlds by elii. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal
A world of many worlds by elii. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal
A world of many worlds by elii. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal
A world of many worlds by elii. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal
A world of many worlds by elii. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal
A world of many worlds by elii. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal
A world of many worlds by elii. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal
A world of many worlds by elii. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal
A world of many worlds by elii. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal
A world of many worlds by elii. Photograph by Luis Hevia
A world of many worlds by elii. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal
Plan. A world of many worlds by elii.
Section. A world of many worlds by elii.
Section. A world of many worlds by elii.
Rendering. A world of many worlds by elii.
Rendering. A world of many worlds by elii.
Rendering. A world of many worlds by elii.
Rendering. A world of many worlds by elii.
Rendering. A world of many worlds by elii.
Rendering. A world of many worlds by elii.
Rendering. A world of many worlds by elii.
Upon arrival, the visitor walks through an illuminated passage that is arranged in an orderly and geometric way, emulating the area inhabited by humans. Next, he will find a series of diverse, living and changing ecosystems that represent the rest of the terrestrials. The two spaces are connected and are configured as a succession of enveloping environments.
In the particular time in which we live, the elii firm offers visitors a place to reflect on the responsibilities of humans for the planet and, in their commitment to the theme of this edition of CasaDecor, the materials used in the adaptation of the space will be recycled after the exhibition.
In the particular time in which we live, the elii firm offers visitors a place to reflect on the responsibilities of humans for the planet and, in their commitment to the theme of this edition of CasaDecor, the materials used in the adaptation of the space will be recycled after the exhibition.
Project description by elii
A World of Many Worlds
Design of the Simon Space at Casadecor 2020, Madrid
"In the Anthropocene, Humans are now at war not with Nature, but with [...] the Terrestrials. [...] To put it in the style of a geohistorical fiction. Humans living in the Holocene epoch are in conflict with the Terrestrials of the Anthropocene.
Bruno Latour, Face to Face with the Planet
The 2020 edition of Casa Decor was held this year in an emblematic building designed by the architect José Espelíus Anduaga, located in the Madrid’s upscale Salamanca neighborhood. From this early 20th century building, the Simon space will give Casa Decor visitors pause to reflect on the world to come in the 21st century.
AWOMAWO (A World Of MAny WOrlds) is a meeting place for different worlds. The project is set up as a space within another space, a place to experience a world of many worlds, a cosmos that can be transformed through light...
Upon arrival at AWOMAWO, the visitor is welcomed by the first zone, an orderly passage of well-defined geometries: this is the space where humans live. Enveloping this first space are a number of diverse, living and changing ecosystems: this space is the one that encompasses the rest of the Terrestrials. A light, continuous boundary connects and separates each zone, configuring a succession of enveloping environments: the plane of interaction between the two, a cosmopolitical front where Humans and Terrestrials must face their desires, interests, and needs.
The Simon space for Casa Decor 2020 has been designed by the elii architecture office together with the artist María Jerez. The team devised an interior landscape of light, plants, minerals, and everyday objects: a vibrantly colorful multiverse that creates ambiguous relationships between entities, ephemeral compositions of diffuse materialities, ghostly images of mixed bodies, of multiplied and crossed gazes... that place the spectator in an ambiguous position blurs the line between who is the subject and who is the object.
In times like now in which we live in a new climate regime, AWOMAWO offers visitors a place to experience and reflect on the problematic place that humans take on the planet and their responsibilities. As part of its commitment to the theme of this year’s Casa Decor, the materials used to stage the Simon space will be recycled after the exhibition. The plants will be donated and replanted. All the wood used will be recycled. The Tarkett flooring will be reclaimed by the manufacturer for treatment in a recycling program. And finally, the lamps will be taken down and stored by Simon for future events. The space will thus be given a new life.
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Architects
elii. Lead architects.- Uriel Fogué + Eva Gil + Carlos Palacios.
Project team
Art work and landscape design.- María Jerez. Architect coordinating the team.- Ana López.
Collaborators
Lucía Fernández, Raquel García, Marta Vaquero. Light programming.- David Herranz - Dasoingenieros. Graphics.- Characters inspired in Moebius (Jean Giraud). Joinery.- Alfredo Merino Caldas.
Builder
Aniceto Jiménez.
Developer
Simon.
Area
38,28 sqm.
Dates
2020.
Manufacturers
Lighting.- Simon. Art pieces.- Juan Ruíz Rivas. Pavement.- Tarkett. Paint.- Valentine. Tablets.- Samsung. Ceramic pieces.- Colorker / ZYX.
Localitation
CasaDecor 2020, C/ Velázquez 21. Madrid, Spain.
Photography
Video
Imagen Subliminal. (Miguel de Guzmán + Rocío Romero).
Uriel Fogué Herreros, Eva Gil Lopesino, Carlos Palacios Rodríguez. elii
elii is an architecture office founded in 2006, and based in Madrid centre, by Uriel Fogué Herreros, Eva Gil Lopesino, and Carlos Palacios Rodríguez. Its founding partners and current directors of the office are the architects founded elii, after collaborating in several prestigious international studios. At present, the three combine the professional practice developed in elii with the teacher (in different Universities of the Spanish and international scope) and with the publisher (UHF magazine).
Their work and articles have appeared in specialized publications and exhibitions, having obtained recognition and awards for outstanding performance, amongst which are the FAD Opinion Award (2005), or the awards received from the Official College of Architects of Madrid “a la Obra Bien Hecha”(2006) and “a la Obra de los Arquitectos” (2011). They have been amongst those selected to appear in the “Arquia Próxima” catalogue (also issued by the Official College of Architects of Madrid) in its 2006-2007, 2008-2009, 2010-2011 issues, having been recognized in this last one as one of the 10 most relevant teams of young architects in the region. They have also taken part in the “Madrid 100% Arquitectura II” (2011), catalogue and Itinerant International Exhibition, where one of their works was considered one of the top 100 by the Official College of Architects of Madrid. They were also similarly distinguished in the XII Buenos Aires International Biennial Architecture Exhibition (2011). Elii is a member of the “Creadores de Madrid” and “FreshMadrid” archives.
Their work and articles have appeared in specialized publications and exhibitions, having obtained recognition and awards for outstanding performance, amongst which are the FAD Opinion Award (2005), or the awards received from the Official College of Architects of Madrid “a la Obra Bien Hecha”(2006) and “a la Obra de los Arquitectos” (2011). They have been amongst those selected to appear in the “Arquia Próxima” catalogue (also issued by the Official College of Architects of Madrid) in its 2006-2007, 2008-2009, 2010-2011 issues, having been recognized in this last one as one of the 10 most relevant teams of young architects in the region. They have also taken part in the “Madrid 100% Arquitectura II” (2011), catalogue and Itinerant International Exhibition, where one of their works was considered one of the top 100 by the Official College of Architects of Madrid. They were also similarly distinguished in the XII Buenos Aires International Biennial Architecture Exhibition (2011). Elii is a member of the “Creadores de Madrid” and “FreshMadrid” archives.
Maria Jerez
Maria Jerez, (Madrid, 1978). Her work travels “between” choreography, cinema and visual arts. Since 2004, she has made pieces that explore the relationship with the spectator as the space in which the modes of representation are put into crisis. From El Caso del Espectador to her last pieces Blob, Yabba or The Stain this relation has mutated from a place of “understanding” of theatrical and cinematographic conventions, that is, from the expertise, to the intentional loss of references where the artist, the piece and the spectator behave towards each other as strangers.
In the last years her work has focused on opening spaces of potentiality through the encounter with what we find strange, alien; insisting on the performativity of the encounter as a space of transformation. In this process of transformation the “other” is lodged in oneself, establishing diffuse edges between the known and the unknown.
She has produced the performances: The Stain (2019), Yabba (2017-2018 adapted as an installation), Blob (2016), Alma de Rímel & The Glammatics (2015), ba-deedly-deedly-deedly-dum ba-boop-be-doop! (2014), The Perfect Alibi (2011-12), This Side Up (2006) and The Case of the Spectator (2004).
She made the films: The Boogie Woogie Ghost (2018) with Silvia Zayas, Maria Gaat Naar School (2017) with Edurne Rubio and The Movie (2008) with Cris Blanco, Amaia Urra and Cuqui Jerez inside their project “The Neverstarting Story”.
Her work is part of the collection of Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M, Madrid).
Since 2010 she co-organizes: Living Room Festival (Madrid) with Juan Domínguez, Luis Úrculo and Cuqui Jerez. She has co-curated with Magui Dávila, Maria Eguizábal and Gisela Serrano PICNIC SESSIONS 2017, CA2M, Móstoles (Madrid). She teaches at: Master’s Degree in Arts Practice and Visual Culture, UCLM & Reina Sofía Museum (Madrid).
Her work is supported by apap-Performing Europe 2020 - a project co-founded by Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
In the last years her work has focused on opening spaces of potentiality through the encounter with what we find strange, alien; insisting on the performativity of the encounter as a space of transformation. In this process of transformation the “other” is lodged in oneself, establishing diffuse edges between the known and the unknown.
She has produced the performances: The Stain (2019), Yabba (2017-2018 adapted as an installation), Blob (2016), Alma de Rímel & The Glammatics (2015), ba-deedly-deedly-deedly-dum ba-boop-be-doop! (2014), The Perfect Alibi (2011-12), This Side Up (2006) and The Case of the Spectator (2004).
She made the films: The Boogie Woogie Ghost (2018) with Silvia Zayas, Maria Gaat Naar School (2017) with Edurne Rubio and The Movie (2008) with Cris Blanco, Amaia Urra and Cuqui Jerez inside their project “The Neverstarting Story”.
Her work is part of the collection of Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M, Madrid).
Since 2010 she co-organizes: Living Room Festival (Madrid) with Juan Domínguez, Luis Úrculo and Cuqui Jerez. She has co-curated with Magui Dávila, Maria Eguizábal and Gisela Serrano PICNIC SESSIONS 2017, CA2M, Móstoles (Madrid). She teaches at: Master’s Degree in Arts Practice and Visual Culture, UCLM & Reina Sofía Museum (Madrid).
Her work is supported by apap-Performing Europe 2020 - a project co-founded by Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
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