Solo 2.0

by atelierkodama.com

Antonio Moreno, Daniel Lopez Lomeli, Francisco Barba, Richard Briggs, Rodney Moya with special guest Consuelo Larenas

Architecture is not neutral. It is not merely shelter, not simply volume and void. Shape, materiality, wound, archive or gesture. It binds us—sometimes in care, sometimes in control. It holds memory and enforces forgetting. It draws lines: of property, of passage, of belonging.

SOLO 2.0 is not a display, it is an exposure. A crossing of practices that sense the collapse of categories. Practicing architects like: Briggs, Moreno and Barba—tracing maps of inner topographies and outer systems. Sculptures by Lopez Lomeli, assembled from the debris of construction sites—ghosts of failed utopias, skeletal remains of capitalist excretion. Moya’s nocturnal Sydney is no cityscape but a pulse, a fever. Larenas, guest and witness, joins the constellation with forms that feel like whispers from deep time, questioning migration, movement.

There are no separate disciplines anymore. There is only the field. The mess. The tangled web Donna Haraway named the Chtuluscene: a world where all is connected, entangled, alive. This exhibition is not an answer. It is an incision. A site of friction. A rehearsal for what comes after the ruins, here do we go from here? How do we move forward?

Opening event 6pm 25 August