VAULTS BEDS GARDENS: Public Hedonics and Alternative Publicness presents amid.cero9’s investigations on the role of architecture in the formation of the contemporary public realm. Through large format drawings and precious models recreating the working environment of their studio in Madrid, the exhibition presents architectural projects ranging from the beginning of their practice in 1998 to their most recent work.
Amidst the ruins of Western public space and the growing contemporary collective anesthesia, amid.cero9’s projects propose, in a playful and subversive way, a series of public artifacts whose ambition is to shape, through architecture, the place and the nature of human interactions, reformulating what public space can be nowadays. Communal beds, processions of portable gardens, vaults covering public interiors, gardens that recreate the concept of third natures, assemblages of machines for public demolition processes, outdoor gardens as communal houses, spaces for interaction with digital art or infra-light domes that celebrate the counter-routine are some of the subjects that the exhibition presents with a festal and positive commitment and intellectual ambition, reflecting amid.cero9’s aim to reconnect the practice of architecture with the complexity, richness, and overabundance of reality.
