Hernan Diaz Alonso / Xefirotarch

T-B A21 Patagonia, 2008

Single-channel animation
3 min 39 sec, color, silent
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary

The proposal and animation for T-B A21 Patagonia is a manifest experiment in the notion of a remote form of architecture. Located at the base of the Andes in Argentina, itself a remote habitat, this permanently occupied proto-museum acts as an augmented aesthetic environment within the otherwise barren landscape of the region. By interjecting a foreign yet sensible intelligence to this habitable node, a new condition is able to arise. Those who engage it find a new and unexpected capacity to access the dynamic and profoundly energetic condition that produces the very environment it lives within. As this mutant form, more organ than creature, transitions from its lightly rooted periphery toward its center, pockets of space emerge, forming the interior of the project. (Hernan Diaz Alonso)

Hernan Diaz Alonso / Xefirotarch, *1969 Buenos Aires/ARG