"The city as a set"

"The city as a set" explores the architectural and social context of the Can Framis Museum and the district 22@ of Barcelona, where the building is located, from a multidisciplinary approach to photography. This is a compilation of projects completed by students and alumni of ELISAVA School of Design and Engineering of Barcelona that can be visited at the Espai Volart 2 (Ausiàs Marc 22, Barcelona) from 5th to 30th of July.

Uno más uno tres. Silvia Poch, Gemma Planell, Garbiñe Irizar.

The exhibition presents some of the works undertaken within the framework of collaboration between the Vila Casas Foundation and ELISAVA in the winter of 2010. As emerging artists, students of the Graduate Diploma in Photography and Design: Image and Creation and the Graduate Diploma in Design, Photography and Architecture of the School have interpreted through the use of the camera the Museum Can Framis and the district 22@ from multiple and divergent points of view (emotional, industrial, physical or conceptual).

Inacabado. Cosma Musacchio, IsabellaLenzi.

Participants view their physical presence as an inherent and inseparable agent of the architectural and social experience of these spaces. The result of the different readings aims to create equivalence between objects, space, body and photographic representation, as elements of interdependent values with which the viewer interacts: responds to an established relationship between space and the desire to articulate a meaning within the context of photographic representation.

Thus, the photograph becomes a tool not only to present but to represent. The photographic image is not a resemblance: two identical objects are not necessarily an image of each other. As the result of their work, they expose different actions on the architectural space: from topographic analysis of the industrial profiles of 22@ to documentary pieces on the social history of the district, through interventions in Can Framis.

Relaciones espaciales. JosepMariaRius.

Camera obscura.

Coinciding with the exhibition, a dark chamber (camera obscura) under the slogan "Wait" will be installed in the courtyard outside the Can Framis Museum. The facility, with the form of a box, seeks to emphasize the importance of walking, watching and exploring the city while offering visitors a new look at the city, more caring, quiet and slow.

Judit Taberna.

It is designed for visitors to understand the functioning and logic of a camera: the outside invades the chamber and projects fragments of the city in its walls. Images taken by the camera obscura located in 22@ can be seen in Espai Volart 2, located in the Eixample. Thus, the two exhibition areas are connected.