FLUCTUATIONS
by Ibai Etxezarraga Alvarez
portfolio special mention call 'Urbanautica Institute Awards 2023', 2023
Category: Representations of Space, Architecture, and Conflicts
The aesthetic question is disarticulated in the antagonistic reflections to the artificial and the adulterated when the human being operates more from a spontaneous proceeding than from a pretentious deviation. During that handling, certainly unconscious and fantastically naive, peripheral aesthetic fluctuations that tend towards the sublime and the grotesque arise.
To contemplate that border space to the pretentiously beautiful -or pretentiously ugly, in its absence- requires revolt against judgments and standardized aesthetic patterns. This stance not only allows us to admire that which is too often invisible. It also empowers us to be able to recognize the real value present in every act of creation and/or transformation on which to build new logics of approach to a changing human condition.
also from Urbanautica Institute Awards 2023