RE CONSTRUCTO / REBUILDING MEXICO

☉ Spazio Ridotto / Zuecca Project Space. Venice, Italy.
May 25 – Aug 31, 2018.

Photographers:
Santiago Arau, Pedro Hernádez, Enrique Márquez Abella

Re Constructo is an exhibition curated by Luis Carbonell and Andrés Souto programmed during the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale 2018 at Spazio Ridotto and Zuecca Project Space. It proposes a multifaceted exhibition that presents two simultaneous and overlapping readings of the action of destruction and construction produced by the earthquakes in Mexico. Both exhibits part from the devastating events occurred in Mexico by the two earthquakes of September 2017. The exhibition focuses on presenting the reaction of organized groups of citizens including architects, artists, other projects and initiatives born to aid in the reconstruction of the lost built environment.

Enrique Márquez Abella’s work was presented in Destruction, the first of the three chapters in which this exhibition is structured; Reconstruction and Perception are the two remaining chapters.

DESTRUCTION
Documentary pieces that introduce to the international audience the events of disaster occurred in Mexico.
Data on the impact of the earthquake is presented through facts and figures on 2 different screens removing the viewer from mediatic sensationalized images and transmitting through raw numbers the real causes and effects of such a disaster.

Alongside with the work of amateur and professional photographers who documented since the moment of the impact until now, this chapter portrays what has become an everyday normal state of urban and rural crisis.

In Destruction, the photographs of Santiago Arau and Enrique Márquez Abella show us different magnitudes of chaos and the social reaction that happened in Mexico City. With the series of photographs entitled The New Normal (Pedro Hernández) we tour the city in real time finding damaged and fragile buildings, peeled off facades, structures close to collapse, the city infrastructure wounded and cracked.

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