team > Jorge Yeregui
As an architect, his work investigates the cultural dimension of the environment in those places where the confluence of multiple realities - social, environmental, political or economic - gives them a marked symbolic as well as testimonial value. The relationship between architecture and the environment or the influence of markets on urban growth are some of his themes of interest. "Un repertorio improbable" (2021), "Deshacer, borrar, activar" (2020), "Sobre el derecho a la ciudad" (2019), "Acta de replanteo" (2017-2016) and "Inventario" (2015) are some of his most important solo exhibitions. He has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, including the Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism held in Medellín.
In recent years, we have witnessed a resurgence of interest in ecological utopias within social movements, artistic spaces, intellectual circles, and society in general. This search for ways to integrate the promises of a better world within planetary limits is valuable in itself, and at the same time historically significant: it reveals that environmentalism demands…
Source: Fernando López Heptener, La presa de Aldeadávila, 1963, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X_yduTT1EQ. Spain is one of the countries with the largest number of dams, about 1,200. Many were built during Franco’s dictatorship as part of his emblematic hydraulic policy, aimed at addressing post-war social, economic, and energy crises. Aside from the failed autarkic economic project, this…
Photograph: Elena Lavellés. Cranes at the Valdemingómez landfill. Documentation visit 2024. The limits of nature are dissolved under layers of cement, CO2 emitted into the atmosphere and waste produced from the activity of human beings. This overview leads us to a new vision that exceeds our capacity of comprehension and places us on the edge…