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Piso 23 _ Casa Translúcida

Video performance in Alfons Soldevila´s Translucent House

With this video performance we aimed to concurrently represent three different stages of a single individual, approaching life as a simultaneous event.  

The main character is at once a child, an adult and an old man (like in the riddle of the Sphinx) and he is interpreted by three persons: a child, an adult and an old man who are at the same time in real life inside the house and in a virtual one, projected in the house. He is trapped in a journey, in which the figures move around levels which are interconnected by physical stairs and this virtual new elevator for the house, recalling an Escher impossible space.

We turned the vertical pane of the north façade into a kind of virtual reality and the house into an ephemeral world of duplicities, where people are invited to experience, by means of sight and touch, our musings on life and time.


Thanks Simon Riva and Raff Cachin for their production genius !! The flyers were done by Simon. And super special thanks to Barba for introducing me to the swiss, who provided us with so much energy and knowledge with his natural high (who scared Dionis away 😊) and who produced even one of the video projectors!

And thanks to Dionis (videoartist), who assisted me with the project and helped me push it forward. The young 21 years old I was, was a bit lost, but really wanted to intervene Soldevila´s house!


All together we did it !!


Project Gallery

Idée Fixe  is a Transdisciplinary Studio of Art and Architecture, run by Cristina Guadalupe Galván.

If in a website you normally find finished objects and products to share, what we are sharing here are more ideas – tested, developed and lived -- and their processes, that in many instances ended up happily physical. The creative process is about experimentation and the life that goes with it. The life and the people.

While building this site I came across a quote that explained it to me much better, by architects Josep Ferrando & Marta Poch, for their Quaderns d´Arquitectura, issue 273, THE THINKING TRADE:

      In a world dominated by images of the finished object and the immediacy of access to multimedia content, this issue of Quaderns sets out to reflect on the role of the architect –by means of their working processes, of the working methods (…) leaving the image of the built project on the background.

For artist Sol LeWitt, the process was also the work:

      The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. (...) It is the process of conception and realization with which the artist is concerned. 

Architect Josep Maria Sostres said something similar:

      The project, obviously as a mental conception, as a will to form, has a sovereignty, it has an internal power that must be imposed.

So this archive-website of Idee-Fixe, records more these ideas, processes and in many instances the collaborations that made them possible.

It´s about THE LIFE OF IDEAS.

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