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Federico Herrero
Founder (2007-19)
Cristina Ramirez
Production (2018-19)
Erno Hilarion
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Sandino Scheidegger
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Mimian Hsu
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Roberto Chaves
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Studio Verónica
Happened in August 2017
San José
Studio Visit: Verónica Alfaro
Alfaro's investigation process emerges from the formal and topical elements of a house, from inhabiting and the possibilities it offers, from materiality to the manifestation of emotional processes. That observation also generates a certain symbolic material that is reflected in discourse: sometimes the house is also a being. A drive based in memories passed from generation to generation, whose conquest is demarcated by the very rebellion of the house, its resistance to being conquered.
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A symbiotic relationship is that which doesn´t survive without the other, or so it would seem. She explores how architecture does not correspond to a particular aesthetic but rather the natural and random succession of habitating; with the passage of time the house is never the same house. She uses materials from her own house to produce her projects. Little pieces of a house as prototypes of a house. She explores materials, the irresponsible intervention of spaces, accumulation, and attachment. Veronica, like Cortazar, likes the house for its spaciousness and antiquity.
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Verónica Alfaro was born in 1993 in San José, Costa Rica, where she lives and works. Learn more about Alfaro on Instagram or Facebook, or contact her by e-mail.
The artist is part of the residency program La última which starts on May 2018.
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