ABOUT UNCERTAIN HOUSES - BY ALAN FONTES

The exhibition "Sobre Incertas Casas" (About Uncertain Houses) proposes an exploration of the poetics of an ideal architecture, composed of ideal homes, to pictorially speculate on the utopia of an ideal world. Following my research on the poetics of House and City, this exhibition follows the creation of a series of paintings of destroyed houses, produced from documentary images from various parts of the world. These paintings, called "Deconstructed Houses," proposed a reflection on the unity of the house as a shell of the body and its dematerialization as a symbolic and universal event.

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In this work, the question raised is not the destruction of the house, but the idea of ​​planned buildings that would become unviable when brought into the reality of a heterogeneous world, where the harmonious occupation of space would eventually prove unattainable. This idealization is incompatible with the status of the house as living architecture and, therefore, subject to the passage of time and analogies with the individual's questions and their constant transformation.

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The series of paintings was produced from a database of images of houses and buildings with references to modernist and minimalist architecture, compiled through internet research, architectural magazines, and photographs taken during city trips. These images are combined and reinvented during the work process to aesthetically adapt to a fictional pictorial city.

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A symbolic landscape, composed of cold, impermeable architecture that fits sculpturally into the space. Houses of white concrete and glass that attempt to return to the landscape part of the natural space they occupy. Homes emptied of life, revealing a desire for organization in an unlikely landscape.