Tribuna I & II (Forum)
Victoria Boulay

“How does this city make you feel?” is the question that activates Tribuna (Forum), a participatory work that invites us to reflect on the urban experience as a shared stage where spatial, economic, and political forces shape our ways of inhabiting. The work—presented in Espacio Diálogo while the artist simultaneously carries out the intervention on the Carapantalla of Tribuna II—allows viewers to recognize the origin of the archive in its first iteration and to establish the framework through which to read the intervention.

Victoria Boulay is an Argentine artist whose practice explores language as an artifact and the intersections between language, body, and city. She uses materials linked to the commodification of urban mobility to host messages connected to the affective, the utopian, and the (micro)political, with a touch of humor.

TRIBUNA I

Visitors are invited, through a flyer, to condense into a single word a minimal gesture of their sensitive relationship with the city. The papers accumulate, and the words reappear, spilling into the continuous visual flow of the LED sign.

These intimate impressions thus migrate toward a regime of collective visibility, forming a kind of affective archive. Observing the sign inevitably also means entering into its reading. Each word calls forth associations, comparisons, and hypotheses, and the shared experience returns filtered through our own biases and affects.

TRIBUNA II – Intervention in Proyecto Carapantallas 2026

In this second phase of the work, a simulation of an analytical reading of the archive generated through audience participation in Tribuna (presented simultaneously in Espacio Diálogo) is proposed.

The accumulated words are reorganized into a whimsical and absurd graph that unfolds across the Carapantalla. The categories group the words by resonance or friction, resulting in a diagram that functions as a speculative interpretation and a visual poem in itself.