Embodying

It is said that you can’t explain poetry, that Barragán is the ultimate mexican master. The fact is that very few try to go beyond the clichés regarding his work. The visual aspect of it that you see in beautiful pictures and in beautiful books. The most superficial and obvious explanations from guided tours.

Through the exceptional opportunity of living in Barragán’s house for a week, rather than experiencing it merely as a museum, the studio aims toward comprehending the uniqueness of its propositions.

In order to do that, we imposed upon ourselves the difficult task of unveiling the hows but mainly the whys of the choices he made. We accomplished this by extrapolating the most iconic spaces and elements of barragán’s work – stairs, windows, terraces.

Rather than using our rational understanding which is embedded in preconceived notions we take the dimensions and emotions of our own body to explore the true meaning of what barragan was expressing, imagining what is evident.