For this work, I start from a personal experience to question how built space within the urban landscape shapes our collective consciousness, beliefs, and narratives.

This installation reflects the history of a building of post-colonial, authoritarian architecture, builded to commemorate colonial territories. The monumental and brutalist construction, charged with Christian symbolism, marks its presence with moldy concrete, malfunctioning lasers designed to reach for the sky, and an opaque earthly presence. It embodies a failed aspiration to transcendence, a generic hero who cannot see his own collapse.

In this installation, I appropriate the symbols of authoritarian architecture, the grid, the repetition, the lack of luminosity, to question their inherent violence: power structures that become cultural attractions; indifference that becomes identity; structural violence that becomes embedded in the personal.

My artistic research is rooted in an ongoing tension: the desire to subvert capitalist logics while simultaneously being entangled in them. I approach construction as sketching, as a space for contradictions, plurality, and reappropriation.