Úter

ÚTER

Úter takes shape in one of the industrial warehouses of Konvent PuntZero, a former nuns convent from the late nineteenth century now turned into a multidisciplinary art center.
In Úter, Borondo
The intervention was carried out in one of the abandoned textile factories encompassed by the complex, where the artist rehabilitates the old dyeing room within one of the abandoned warehouses to turn it into a contemporary cathedral which sacralizes the artistic process.

Inside the installation, six huge stained-glass windows are installed, flooding the space with a warm light that changes with sunlight. Establishing a dialogue with the Catalan Gothic tradition and overcoming the convention of using stained glass in a pedagogical manner, these will contribute to create an environment that acts as amniotic fluid. Partial, indefinite, and potentially chaotic, Úter is a living space that’s also saturated by grafting thanks to the plants sprouting inside it and in its agora.
Thus, it is through traditional references such as the cathedral, the agora, or the greenhouse, that the work proposes a new relational ontology, generating a catalytic atmosphere of new, more creative ways of existing and living together. A pregnant uterus, which allows to care for the root of what has not yet been born, to care for what might ever be possible. A refuge which, far from encouraging a runaway or the stasis, is an invitation to movement, thus facilitating dialogue and the encounter with the self, with art and with others always based on care. In contrast to the mercantile and productive past of the building, Borondo proposes a relational architecture conceived well away from machinism. Realigning life with life.

Special thanks to Konvent and all the people who made this possible

Credit photo ©Ana Benet