Between isolation and social distancing, the pandemic has established a global process of disembodiment with our relationship with the urban space and with social life, which has profoundly disturbed our condition as citizens. By depriving, restricting, and constraining our freedom of movement and behavior, the recent health crisis has shown to what extent being a Homo Urbanus, before being a social and political issue, is first and foremost a physical condition – living together, side by side another, in a state of proximity, even paradoxically anonymous intimacy. Now that an attempt is being made to restore “normality”, this audiovisual exhibition proposes to question our individual and collective bodily experience of urban space.

Through an immersive installation that puts the viewer’s body in the same state of alert as the Homo Urbanus they observe on the screen, the exhibition offers a vibrant tribute to what the recent pandemic has contributed to revalue as the most precious component of our cities, the public space.

This installation featured the work of the duo of artists Ila Beka & Louise Lemoine, as well as the work of the Laboratory of Sensitive Observers. It was curated by Caterina Miralles and Jack Isles, in collaboration with the Fundació Enric Miralles.

Curated by —> Caterina Miralles & Jack Isles

A project of —> Ila Beka & Louise Lemoine

In collaboration with —> Fundació Enirc Miralles

Year —> 2021

With the support of —> LOOP Festival

Press —> Metalocus, AA School News, UB Belles Arts, Good2be