Architecture of the section “ARCO2045: The Future, for Now” – By Estudio Angela Juarranz

The architecture for "The future, for now" is conceived as a linking device between past and future, a structure that does not illustrate time, but unfolds it. Faced with the curatorial question of what is to come, the space takes the form of a time capsule, where recent memory and anticipation are superimposed through a sequence of scenes.

The proposal is underpinned on an explicit theatricality, not as an artifice, but as a spatial condition. Textile curtains envelop and articulate the ensemble to create a mutable interior, a space of possibility that takes on a performative character. The textile does not delimit, it suggests; it does not enclose, it allows. Thus a soft space emerges, without rigid boundaries, capable of overflowing and reconfiguring itself, in tune with the diversity of artistic languages and generational positions present.

The relationship between the works and the public is based on proximity and coexistence. The route does not impose fixed hierarchies, but favours encounters, resonances and frictions. The visitor becomes an active part of the device and moves between situations that oscillate between the collective and the introspective.

This tension between the common and the intimate structures the project. The space functions as a shared place that, at the same time, allows for individual and silent experiences. Against this backdrop, architecture acts as a mediator between scenes, times and gazes, and amplifies the dialogues proposed for the field into as yet undetermined futures.

Angela Juarranz