| CARACAS, HECHO EN VENEZUELA |
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| DRAWINGS, August 03 |
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| Marches City Centre, Drawings This series of photographs of demonstrations and marches in Caracas have been digitally altered – the architecture and the cityscape have been sketched out, rendering it more as an ideal or even utopian architectural drawing which recalls the optimistic aesthetics of the collage works from late-60s architectural groups such as Archigram and Superstudio. The language of this moment of utopian architecture with terms such as ‘total urbanization’ and ‘absolute egalitarianism’ is replaced in our sketches with the forceful language of protest and change: ‘The Workers are the Builders of the Country,’ ‘Workers in the Process of Change.’ ‘Bolivarian Workers at the Front of the Revolution.’ By abstracting the architecture, it is reduced from the main texture and structure of the urban territitory, and the citizens – with their signs and banners – are made more vital and central. Representing a transformative urbanism that is both spatial and social, their collective mobilization moves through the urban space, producing the city. Printed in an newsprint edition of 2000 by the Instituto Municipal de Publicaciones, Alcaldia de Caracas. |
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