Ana Fernando
An architect, she has published the articles "Criticism, Instructions for Use" (2014) and "Undoing the City" (2015). She is the author of the book "Despaisajes " (2015), an excerpt from her doctoral thesis "The Infra-Ordinary."
Ana Fernando Magarzo was born in Madrid in 1977, but her (floating) roots reached as far as a small village in the Arribes del Duero region, on the border with Portugal. This initial life circumstance perhaps shaped her predisposition for travel and her undeniable inclination towards the in-between. It also influenced her wonder and interest in both the rural and the urban, and her admiration for all kinds of abysses, transitions, or surroundings, both external and internal.
It is even possible that his diverse and scattered works may one day reveal, as poignantly as one might wish, that irrepressible fascination with territory and its margins (at any scale), or with concepts such as rhythm and distance. Also with the passage of time and space, and with all kinds of beings and their circumstances, and their reversed nature. As well as an unusual devotion to fragments and remnants, to what is lost, imperfect, and impossible.
He champions the use of melancholy and irony as weapons. He takes his hat off to paradoxes, absurdity, contradictions, and all those events where one thing and its opposite coexist elegantly, without the need for synthesis.
Updated March 9, 2016
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