Derivas de Arte y Arquitectura: Clara Porset's design

Arte Abierto presents in Derivas de Arte y Arquitectura The design of Clara Porset: Between Tradition and Modernity in the company of the curator and researcher Lorena Botello.

Derivas de Arte y Arquitectura de Arte Abierto is a program that seeks to renew our view of the architectural legacy of Mexico City. Based on a series of talks focused on rescuing the parallel stories of emblematic architectural projects and public spaces that have witnessed the variable intersection between art and architecture.

In this first stage, the program mainly addresses modern architecture, based on a series of talks proposed by invited curators, architects, artists and urban planners.

With this program, ways are tested to return to architecture part of its public, experiential, collective character that is close to those of us who live in the city, recognizing in it its condition as a living archive. From these talks, circumstances, contexts and anecdotes are revealed that have been part of his sensitive memory and that complement his material memory, a relationship that often escapes documentary narratives and academic stories.

Derivas de Arte y Arquitectura proposes imaginary routes and drifts without a path for spatial rediscovery, necessary to rethink the immediate past and present of the city, at a time of urban complexity that intensifies our habitation.

— Arte Abierto

Image credits: Sillas para playa, Archivo Clara Porset, CIDI FA UNAM