Think about it; our world is vast, layered and scattered. But it is also sewn together by systems and structures that attempt to organise our daily instances of complexities — across geographies, economies and societies. But what happens when the frameworks we trust to explain this complexity, begin to shape the future itself? The fourth edition of Mayrit Biennial calls this phenomenon (Super)Models, and is set to arrive in Madrid from May 20 to 24. And the agenda? Held every two years, the biennial will lead the dialogue on how models help decode and forecast our shared realities by reimagining the Spanish capital as a city-wide stage for design and architectural speculation.
While the complete program for the biennial is soon to be announced, the events spanning multiple days, will display a range of formats, from exhibitions, guided visits and performances to lectures and workshops. The overarching concept (Super)Models envisioned by Mohammad Salemy and Eduarda Neves blurs the threshold between theory and practice, imagination and reality. The visual identity of the Mayrit Biennial developed by the artistic team of Víctor Clemente and Víctor Hans García, in collaboration with Archivo Orsini, will contemplate the vacuum in between, interpreting how the human-made mechanisms predict creative behaviours, subtly (but impactfully) influencing how familiar models lose their semblance to unravel newer possibilities. In doing so, Mayrit proposes something compelling: when models begin to falter, imagination has room to take over; with design, art and architecture at the pulse of it all.
