Builders of worlds very similar to ours
Artist Ludovican Carbotta transforms Espai 13 at the Joan Miró Foundation into an urban laboratory to imagine new ways of inhabiting and constructing the collective.
The city is a living organism, subject to constant transformation and dispute. Apparently impersonal, it pulses with the intimate stories of thousands of lives that inhabit it every day. Often invisible lives, yet intertwined through shared spaces, common rhythms, and tensions that become collective. Builders of worlds very similar to ours is the new exhibition by artist Ludovican Carbotta, arriving at Espai 13 at the Joan Miró Foundation to offer a critical and playful look at the metropolis.
Constructores de mons molt semblants al nostre is an exhibition that claims self-construction as a way of reclaiming space and time. Connected to the cycle com des d’aquí, Carbotta tells a story using reused materials, shifts in scale, and a landscape of formwork as an image of that city always under construction and in constant change. It is an active experience where the viewer's gaze plays an important role: the urban space is transformed before their eyes into something strange, where normality is transcended by imagination.
The artist also asks whether, in an increasingly controlled city, there is room to question the rules, using the museum as a starting point for intervention in public space, imagining other possible or impossible futures. Constructores de mons molt semblants al nostre invites you to rethink the city not just as a physical space, but as a living fabric of relationships, tensions, and possibilities. Through creativity and active participation, Ludovican Carbotta opens the door to imagining alternative futures and reclaiming the right to collectively build the places we live in.
You can find more information about the exhibition on the Joan Miró Foundation’s website.
Photography: Ludovica Carbotta, Plenum, 2015.