A Wall That Barely Stands
Cristian Battista

As part of the Carapantallas Project, on August 27 we inaugurated the intervention by Cristián Battista, an Argentine visual artist and architect. On this occasion, Cristian intervened on one of the two carapantallas with a canvas painted with cement, construction wires, and cuts that revealed the intervention underneath, previously created by Cecilia Mandrile. Cristian Battista’s work explores the concept of inhabiting from the everyday, the playful, and the absurd, using recycled or reused materials, displacing them from their original function to generate new meanings in dialogue with the city. In this sense, his intervention in the Carapantallas Project highlighted the urban dimension of these traditional public communication devices in the City of Buenos Aires. With a critical and poetic approach, Cristian investigated how the urban environment, its rhythms, and materials shape our relationship with space, with others, and with ourselves.

ARTIST STATEMENT

My artistic practice is born at the intersection between art and architecture, as a way of rethinking how we inhabit the contemporary city. I work with recycled or reused materials, displaced from their original function, to create installations and pieces that question utilitarian logic and open up a poetic space within the everyday. Through playfulness and absurdity, I seek to tension the relationship between body, space, and object, exploring how urban rhythms and the materials that surround us shape the way we relate to others and ourselves. My work proposes a critical and sensitive dialogue with the urban, as an attempt to find new forms of refuge in its ruins and excesses.