Exhibition 'Refugi', by Domènec

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Curator

Centre Excursionista de Catalunya

Technique

models, sculpture, photography

Closing date

2026-10-22

What's it about

At Refugi, Domènec puts historical models of shelters from the Centre Excursionista de Catalunya (CEC), created to study the structural resistance of mountain constructions, in dialogue with the sculpture Dos refugis i el membre fantasma (2020). In this work, the artist contrasts the models of Ted Kaczynski's cabin "Unabomber" and Le Corbusier's Le Cabanon, archetype of modern housing utopias. Between the two, Domènec leaves empty the space corresponding to Henry David Thoreau's cabin on the shores of Walden Pond. This void, conceived as a "phantom member", evokes the memory of a utopia based on natural life and peaceful disobedience, in contrast with the violence of Kaczynski, who sent mail bombs between 1978 and 1995. For Panoràmic, the artist expands this reflection with the models from the CEC collection and a selection of photographs of mountain constructions that show the shelter both as a space of isolation and idealized life and as a hideout or place of escape. The project thus questions modern utopias and addresses the shelter as a space of dissent, desertion, and resistance against urban alienation and contemporary control devices.

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