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Ana Carreño Férnandez – Travanco

14 February 2022 – 16 April 2022

An architect from the University College of Dublin, she completed the Master’s Degree in Advanced Architectural Projects at the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid, where she is currently developing her doctoral thesis in the Department of Architectural Projects. As an architect, she has collaborated with architectural studios in Denmark, Holland and Spain, as well as participated in research on Asturian industrial heritage, declining cities and post-industrial society. His work has been exhibited among others at the FICARQ International Film and Architecture Festival, the digital pavilion of Spain for the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale, the College of Architects of Asturias, LABoral Centro de Arte or the College of Architects of Valencia.

He currently carries out his activity on his own between Asturias and Madrid, combining architecture and photography in research on the built environment.

Project in residence

Backsides. Escenas traseras

In the 1990s, Asturias would suffer after the well-known Industrial Reconversion that led to the reduction and cessation of its industry, an unequivocal part of its collective identity throughout the last century. This condition would permeate even its socioeconomic organization, shaking the cultural scene of the region.

As would happen in large post-industrial cities at a national and international level, relevant subaltern scenes took place in Asturias that reflected the agitation of a generation. One of them was the music scene, and more specifically the electronic scene, which would expand through an orphaned yet permeable territory.

In parallel with the image of optimism and national economic transition, the project seeks to map these back scenes of the region, understood as part of the culture of a delicate era. Their everyday and misunderstood conditions arose in party halls or venues, but also in basements, warehouses or large abandoned industrial structures. A certain eventual, invisible and intense character, which advanced a collective and to a certain extent dissident enjoyment, in contrast to the conformism of the hedonistic post-industrial society.

Project selected in the I Call for Artistic Residencies 2022


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