In the exhibition we perceive the material encounter of original wooden architectural elements from two different parts of the world: Aysén, Chile, and Brandenburg, Germany. The “Fachwerk“ construction model, transferred to southern Chile by the German colonisers which began to arrive in 1850, and its consequent adaptations and transformations in the architecture of Patagonia‘s “difficult geography and harsh climate“ had never been so close. The artists Olaf Holzapfel (Germany) and Sebastián Preece (Chile) continue their artistic collaboration and archaeological mode of working through the dismantling, transportation, and reassembling of architectural fragments for their new installation Housing in Amplitude, in Berlin.
More than merely capturing a façade, Housing in Amplitude unveils construction processes, capturing the movement, struggle, and context of materials, presenting evidence of how networks of relations and differences are linked to local forms of living. In the face of Google Earth‘s virtual reality, social networks, and the homogeneity of global thinking, Housing in Amplitude exhibits the qualities of matter, its local affects, actions, knowledge, memories, and roots.
(From the text by Paz Guevara)
