Fora de Si
As part of the 2024 Architecture Weeks, Fora de Si was a three-part performative series curated by Miquel Ruiz (h3o) and Arnau Pascual, aimed at bringing architecture into dialogue with other artistic practices such as music, painting, dance, sculpture, and writing. The project stems from a desire to liberate architectural thinking from the rigid structures that often constrain it, opening it up to more intuitive, sensorial, and collective approaches.
The performances took place in the rear garden of Galería H2O in Barcelona’s Gràcia neighborhood, a space shared with the h3o studio. To activate the garden as a performative device, two staggered platforms were built with concrete blocks, creating simple stages for the artists to occupy, alter, or engage with the space. This minimal intervention enabled each session to unfold in an unpredictable, open-ended way.
Eva Fàbregas and Marina Herlop, Marria Pratts and Gabriel Ventura, and Albert Riera Galceran with Lorena Nogal explored three very different approaches to space: from intimate dialogue to ephemeral soundscapes or material choreographies. Each act left behind symbolic or physical traces that gradually accumulated in the garden like layers of a shared palimpsest.
Fora de Si takes inspiration from the book Una casa fuera de sí by Víctor Navarro, which recounts Frank Gehry’s transformation of his house in Santa Monica into a radical statement on domestic architecture. Echoing that same spirit, the cycle champions an idea of architecture as an evolving process, a permeable setting that allows itself to be affected by other disciplines, other tempos, and other ways of thinking.
