Feb 17th 2018
Emilio Rojas: Luminous Intensity, Growing up with Fire and Dancing in the Springs
@ Gallery 400
400 South Peoria Street, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Saturday, February 17th, from 3PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, March 3rd
This performative tour of “Félix Candela’s Concrete Shells: An Engineered Architecture for México and Chicago” considers what it meant to grow up surrounded by Candela’s architecture as a child and adolescent in Mexico City. In collaboration with his mother, Emilio Rojas goes back three generations to remember specific personal and political events that took place in Candela’s Concrete Shells including baptisms, weddings, daily rituals, the 1968 Olympics, student protests and falling in love. The performance questions the relationship between memory and architecture, the ways not only our bodies but our biographies become intrinsically connected to the structures we inhabit and the affective nature of the poetics of space.
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Tags: Dancing in the Springs, Emilio Rojas, Félix Candela’s Concrete Shells: An Engineered Architecture for México and Chicago, Gallery 400, Growing up with Fire, Luminous Intensity, near west side
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