Anna Moreno. La tercera torsió

The exhibition is organised around The Terminal Beach, the last part of a trilogy that reflects on temporality through utopian architecture and the potential of its speculative imagination, by means of three projects by Ricardo Bofill and three stories by James Graham Ballard. In "La tercera torsió", the artist documents, in the format of a road movie, the current state of a nomadic settlement built in 1979 by Bofill in the Algerian Sahara, under the commission of then president Houari Boumédienne. The construction is framed within the architect's utopian period, when his studio (RBTA) was a blend of architects, poets and painters, among others. What was meant to be a complex built according to criteria of modernity ultimately becomes an unfinished project that reveals the tension between the dream of that era and the reality of modern colonial legacies. You can find more information about the exhibition "Anna Moreno. La tercera torsió" on the website of the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA).