The relation between the size of the cities, becoming larger, and the measurements of theirs units occupied, apartments shrinking, is one of the key elements of this reflection. Simona Rota finds a proporcional link between the growth of cities and the low quota that is designated to each inhabitant. This space is getting smaller and it causes the search for an abrupt exit on the part of the protagonist of her Big Exit.
In general the inhabitant reaches a symbiosis or adaptation to occupy their space, but this process is not lacking in pressure or frustation, as it can not be 100%. In this series, the artist presents an impracticable or impossible exit and she proves the friction between the natural behavior of the individual and the internal partition of their room. Simona does not stop in her search within a neutral space of simply furniture that could be placed on the flat of any of the people we meet every day or even it can be near to ours.
This space research leads her to treat the reduced surrounding of the apartment with landscape entity with a lighting that tranforms the scene and their main character in something unreal, but at the same time it is close to the everyday life of the spectator who is forced to rethink their connection with the environment and the changes of paradigm in habitable spaces.
Exhibition: 07/09/2012 - 30/09/2012.
Venue: Escalera de Incendios Gallery - S/ Parlament 26 (Barcelona), Spain.
