Towards Water Infrastructure, 2024
Part of the exhibition Arqueologías del Presente
Madrid, Spain
Organization: Sala de Arte Joven, Comunidad de Madrid
Curatorial team: Carlota F. de Elvira, Paloma Fdez-Daza, Miguel González and Iván Rando (FFF collective)
The installation challenges the gas station as a symbol of fossil modernity in a context of permanent drought, where the central government has been forced to approve an emergency decree imposing water use restrictions, affecting the oil industry and consequently gasoline production.
Part of the exhibition Arqueologías del Presente
Madrid, Spain
Organization: Sala de Arte Joven, Comunidad de Madrid
Curatorial team: Carlota F. de Elvira, Paloma Fdez-Daza, Miguel González and Iván Rando (FFF collective)
The installation challenges the gas station as a symbol of fossil modernity in a context of permanent drought, where the central government has been forced to approve an emergency decree imposing water use restrictions, affecting the oil industry and consequently gasoline production.
In this reality-fiction
scenario, the transformation of gas stations into Water Supply Centers is
proposed as a strategy to mitigate the effects of drought, optimizing the use
of existing infrastructure and enhancing the response capacity of firefighting
services in regional and peri-urban areas.
Inspired by Googie and Venturian architectures, which symbolized the foundations of American Fordism, the physical exhibition is contextualized within a decommissioned gas station with the aim of reinterpreting these infrastructural architectures as symbols of transition towards a new water infrastructure.
Other invited participants of the exhibition were: Ane Arce and Iñigo berasategui (BEAR), Gonzalo Peña and Aránzazu Mier (KRI), Matteo Caro, Vivian Rote and Pablo Saiz del Rio, Pau Jiménez and Lola Zoido (LUSTE), Saúl Baeza (MAYBE).
Inspired by Googie and Venturian architectures, which symbolized the foundations of American Fordism, the physical exhibition is contextualized within a decommissioned gas station with the aim of reinterpreting these infrastructural architectures as symbols of transition towards a new water infrastructure.
Other invited participants of the exhibition were: Ane Arce and Iñigo berasategui (BEAR), Gonzalo Peña and Aránzazu Mier (KRI), Matteo Caro, Vivian Rote and Pablo Saiz del Rio, Pau Jiménez and Lola Zoido (LUSTE), Saúl Baeza (MAYBE).