LIGA 37: Juan Campanini Josefina Sposito

Juan Campanini and Josefina Sposito established their eponymous studio in 2017 in the city of Buenos Aires (Argentina). Since then, their practice has been focused on both design and education, as well as research.

For LIGA 37, they present a reinterpretation of the landscape of Mexico City, not as a uniform and indivisible entity, but as a fragmented fabric composed of a collection of distinct recognizable parts. Thus, they present architecture as the discipline responsible for determining the urban framework, with the critical capacity to explore ways of creating and looking at the city.

The intervention takes place along the façade wall where LIGA is located, covering both the street-facing front and its reverse side within the gallery. The distance between the cityscape and the observer inside the room is eliminated through a technical illusion that frames the gaze: a real-time projection that showcases this new urban front within the gallery, yet another fragment of the city's landscape.

This attractive façade was developed by Hunter Douglas. It is Geoclad, a versatile cladding capable of concentrating various qualities. In this case, the customised design by the Juan Campanini Josefina Sposito studio consists of a multiform pattern of curves that fold over one another, forming a sort of light element, closer to the textile universe.