Magritte Ex Machina
Team
Name: Anna Konstantopoulou
Nationality: Greek
Institution / Company: National Technical University of Athens
Name: Dimitrios Ntoupas
Nationality: Greek
Institution / Company: National Technical University of Athens
Name: Riva Lava
Nationality: Greek
Institution / Company: National Technical University of Athens
-FINALIST of HEALING Competition
The pandemic made people withdraw, live alone, keep distances from one another. Life and death became public and transparent. The New York Times remembered 100,000 dead on its front page. People falling from the sky. The cycle of the disease left its mark on urban landscapes. In Milan’s Duomo, Bocelli’s voice reverberated the state of things, it gave form to a world made of singular collectivities.
The pandemic’s images lead to the work of Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte. Magritte’s surrealism fits today’s realities unfolding a program for house and city. We cannot kiss like we did before; we cannot touch or gather like we did before; society now must conform to new metrics. The pandemic redefines social fabric, proximity and democracy. Home life will now be wrapped by sheer intelligence. We now inhabit a space engulfed in representation and image, memory and simulacra.
Coming home to a lightweight enclosure which runs on intelligence, the material world -as we knew it- subsides. What is there to keep us living happily?
We can find new possibillites in our spaces and edifices- new ways to stay together and live together til death do us part.
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