LIGA 39: TANAT

TANAT is a multidisciplinary project founded in 2019 by Mexican architect Diego Rivero Borrell, whose practice joins architecture, art, and research. Within this last category, the office has developed a deep interest in the radical modification of cities and the scarcity of natural resources caused by systemic processes of colonization and extractivism.

The exhibition “Escribir un paisaje” (Writing a Landscape) emerges from these concerns. The water –an element that has been particularly invisible during Modernity both in urban planning and in domestic space– becomes the center of the proposal. Through a mysterious circuit of canals and deposits made from recycled elements, TANAT composes a landscape to activate an oneiric and, at the same time, a thoughtful game in which the times and discursivities are overlapped: Is it memory, future, or simply a work of fiction?

The pieces in the intervention, with their strange scales, will mutate in LIGA’s space during the exhibition period. Like a natural landscape, TANAT’s proposal will grow organically expanding our imagination too.