Inhabited Image by Marina Morón

Description of project by Jesús Marina and Elena Morón

XIV Biennial of Spanish Architecture 2018-2019 was raised, from its motto "More Living, More Human", our time as a transformation into the essential, a horizon towards a progressive identification between the architecture that is thought and produced and those who make it inhabited spaces.

One of the proposed activities was the creation of a Photography Exhibition, which was already exhibited in Santander, during the month of July last year, and which is now inaugurated in the La Arquería Room in Madrid. Sponsored by the Ministry of Development and the Superior Council of Architects of Spain (www.bienalesdearquitectura.es)

The foundation of the exhibition that is presented is the fusion of the processes of which he speaks today of virtual alterity, of emancipated spectators and collective expressions. Architecture as emotion, sensitive experience that in the visual society finds in the photographic language the means of communicating and sharing stories. The lived space, which has to be thought socially, can transcend the simple circumstance of the built up to come to feel like practice of artistic expression through photography.

The modality of invitation to artists of recognized prestige was proposed, which ensured the basis of quality and necessary coherence, using well-known names for their proximity to these themes and a materialization within the exhibition afterwards, in the form of collective expression meeting , on a wall called "Own Voices". His creative condition transcends that professional work to which architecture is accustomed, which has allowed a plastic and very innovative vision of inhabiting.

In the exhibition the Spanish artists Isidro Blasco, Rosa Muñoz, Dionisio González, Ignacio Llamas, Alicia Moneva, Aitor Ortiz, Cristina Fontasaré, Ciuco Gutiérrez participate. All of them artists of international recognition, have exhibited at the Reina Sofía Museum, on the Canal de Isabel II, in Tabacalera, at Matadero Madrid, as well as at numerous international exhibitions, in New York, in Istanbul or in London.

Selection of works has focused on the development of the expression of inhabiting, from a collective mental radiography that is present in the society that goes from the inside of the memory and its physical representation, to the construction of a fictitious project or the impossible vision of a city. The construction of imaginary rooms, along with the appearance of household objects in the city. Intimate visions of landscapes inhabited by artificial light, or the reconversion of intimacy into collective mental landscapes.

The exhibition “Inhabited Image” curated by the architects and photographers, Jesús Marina and Elena Morón who have a long artistic career that combines research and development of individual exhibitions that has been exhibited from New York to Milano, China or London, was commissioned by the Directors of the XIV BEAU Sara de Giles and José Morales (MGM).