El White Cube is a conceptual critique on the fixation architecture sometimes has with the form of informality. Too often, we detach the aesthetic qualities of texture, material, shape and color from the social meaning of precarious human settlements. We objectify poverty.

This installation consists of a house composed of “whitened” pieces that belong to a catalog of architectural moments photographed along the Amazon river, between Iquitos and Belém do Pará.

Essentially sarcastic, El White Cube aims to expose the morbid fascination of adversity by extracting, de-contextualizing, purging, re-composing and re-contextualizing the arbitrary formal compositions of basic human needs for shelter, protection and privacy.

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