Human infrastructure manifests superhuman scales. Inhabited spaces and functional spaces. Our life depends on a complex network of infrastructure: ports, roads, highways, airports, factories, industrial estates, warehouses, crops, greenhouses, etc. The landscape is less and less natural. The world is becoming more uniform. The infrastructure extends, devouring every meter of free landscape. Is our only possible future an endless net of infrastructure: a combination of the physical, digital, chemical, and pharmaceutical?
For Alternative Futures, Giuliana plays with ephemeral elements and fragile objects to construct a symbolic ecosystem that brings back the memory of a desert landscape.
performative action by Giuliana Grippo (Blanca—Buenos Aires).
Giuliana Grippo has a process-led practice that explores the physical-temporal engagement of body and material. Her work examines the symbiosis of man-made materials and organic matter, seeking to build tension within vulnerable structures.
Studio Talk
with illustrations by
Andrés Agudelo Ganem (Berlin—Bogotá)
and
performative action by
Giuliana Grippo (Blanca—Buenos Aires).
2022.08.26
Zero Point Berlin
Berlin, Germany
How much space do we need to live, to exist? What is the scale of our needs?
Andrés Agudelo Ganem
(Berlin—Bogotá)
For Alternative Futures, Giuliana plays with ephemeral elements and fragile objects to construct a symbolic ecosystem that brings back the memory of a desert landscape.
performative action by
Giuliana Grippo (Blanca—Buenos Aires).