Galeria Impakto,
2021
Lima, Peru

“Making cabins: imagining ways to live in a damaged world.”

We are flying over a utopian ruin of a dystopian city that brings
together the contradictions of the human being. The outside
temperature is one thousand two hundred and fifty degrees. It is
an imaginary world in which there is no other destiny than ruin/
catastrophe, present or to come. A fragile balance emanates from
its materiality, from its construction from the unstable. This city was
completely projected by the mind of its designer, a fan of maps,
constellations and fireworks.
Monuments to a modernist deity of the inaccessible/unreachable
coexist in the urban space with habitable or uninhabited places
that still keep the mythologies of those who lived there on their
walls. A city that went through mixed times, built from fragments of
other cities, already disappeared. They are architectural dreams, an
eternal challenge between the verticality of the individual and the
horizontality of time.
Walking among these memories and projections means facing
vertigo, the possibility that everything is about to fall.

Mathilde Ayoub

Impossible City
370 x 500 x 500 cm
Ceramic and wood
2021