The International Museum of Contemporary Art, MIAC – Castillo de San José has hosted since last Friday the "Construction Site", an exhibition by the Lanzarote artist Nicolás Láiz that can be visited until August 15.
The curator of the exhibition, Diana Padrón, was responsible for presenting last Friday an installation that "alludes to both a scale map, an economic model, a classic ruin or a paradise under construction from a fragmented nature that undermines the utopian tourist imaginary as a harmonic unit." According to Padrón, "the work aspires to rethink other models of life through elements of an artificial nature that point both to the local culture and to its inscription in global dynamics."
"Construction Site is a call to attention to rethink our ways of inhabiting the planet," says Padrón. "Starting from historical urban models such as Ebenezer Howard's Garden City, Le Corbusier's Radiant City, Oscar Niemeyer's Tropical Modernism and César Manrique's Architecture and Nature, the installation invites the search for sustainable solutions that promote the balance between urban life and natural ecosystems," he adds.
"Nicolás Laiz reflects without nostalgia on a type of landscape that can be transported while inviting us to inhabit a paradox: that of the construction of a site that aspires to other possible ways of imagining the ou-topos, what has no place. At least for now," concluded Padrón.
