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‘Architecture must be thought of as a system of representation’ Beatriz Colomina
If architecture is understood as a representational system, the metropolis emerges as one of its most pervasive expressions. As a form of representation shaped by the societies that construct it, the built environment embeds and consolidates their underlying social structures. In a Western context, where these structures are organised through systems of patriarchal power and control, the city becomes a primary site where gendered power relations are materially inscribed and spatially reproduced.
It is within this critical framework that the group exhibition Counter City situates itself. At a moment marked by the resurgence of far-right politics, of intensified violence within the public arena that further displaces already marginalised communities, the stakes of this spatial order are increasingly visible. Bringing together artists across generations, the exhibition presents practices that expose, unsettle…
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‘Architecture must be thought of as a system of representation’ Beatriz Colomina
If architecture is understood as a representational system, the metropolis emerges as one of its most pervasive expressions. As a form of representation shaped by the societies that construct it, the built environment embeds and consolidates their underlying social structures. In a Western context, where these structures are organised through systems of patriarchal power and control, the city becomes a primary site where gendered power relations are materially inscribed and spatially reproduced.
It is within this critical framework that the group exhibition Counter City situates itself. At a moment marked by the resurgence of far-right politics, of intensified violence within the public arena that further displaces already marginalised communities, the stakes of this spatial order are increasingly visible. Bringing together artists across generations, the exhibition presents practices that expose, unsettle…











































































































































