art – Daniel Vera Villalobos

Mi casa, tu casa (the antidemocratic house)

19th Jun 20183rd Jul 2018

“A line that delimits nothing, that describes no contour, that no longer goes from one point to another but instead passes between points, that is always declining the horizontal and the vertical and deviating from the diagonal, that is constantly changing direction, a mutant line of this kind that is without outside or inside, form or background, beginning or end and that is alive as a continuous variation. Such a line is truly an abstract line and describes a smooth space.” A thousand Plateaus, Deleuze and Guattari.

This conceptual project is a collaboration with textile artist Patricia Mascarell. The aim was to explore the limits of the abstract and physical lines that define flexibility in architecture. In an utopian case in which flexibility of programme and materials is infinite, how do we establish the forms and uses that satisfy us? Should design follow democratic ideals? Or maybe, democracy is not necessary anymore when we can agree, and that is the whole point when designing our homes?

Who needs democracy when we can agree?

From another point of view, how can we approximate architectural lines to the concepts of abstract lines?

Roles: Concept, Design, Drawings, Sketches, Illustrations, Model making, Graphic Design, Installation.

Team: Patricia Mascarell and Daniel Vera.

The center of the border

20th Dec 201727th Jun 2018

The Center of the Border is an experiment on personal borders. As a part of a bigger project about borders, it deals with the issue through the materialization of an abstract individual space, which is the actual personal border. The border presents itself more as a filter than a limit, flowing with the person but changing irregularly his/her perception of reality. This filter is made by particulars, prejudices and experiences.

Directed/Written/Produced by Patricia Mascarell and Daniel Vera.

Future-Present-Past

17th Mar 201727th Jun 2018

This is a short experiment made to express subtly how crucial the particulars are in each life decision that is taken. Composed by three shortfilms, it analyses these circumstances in a timeline: past, present and future. The result is an abstract work in different levels, with no defined conclusion.