Próximamente. Exhibition Catalogue 170×170mm / 300pp
Venice Architecture Biennale, 2021

EN  Próximamente invites the visitor to take a seat, and immerse him/herself in ten conversations with strangers at a moment when ‘proximity’ has fallen into a crisis. Próximamente proposes ten alternative views of near futures – in the shape of 360º audiovisual essays – staging predictions, fictions and propositions. Through a complex process of research and production Próximamente built a place of dialogue and a space from which the future may be outlined. Próximamente enabled a series of conversations, exchanges and debates to compile a potential atlas of soon-to-be spaces. A set – mirroring the dimensions of the Venice Pavilion – was originally built in Uruguay. Around the white table, politicians got together and made promises to citizens, a housing cooperative planned its manifesto, activists called us for upcoming demonstrations, a fortune teller predicted the future, scholars predicted their own deaths, teenagers proposed new cities, two enemies fought for their visions and friends celebrated when the table eventually collapsed under its own weight.