What remains of a city when its facades disappear? Gaston Core presents us with this scenic device that is born from the wound opened by the pickaxe in Buenos Aires, a city today undergoing the demolition of its own identity, Like most cities today. Inspired by the architect's project "Ilustro so not to forget" Natalia Karbabian, This work becomes a refuge against oblivion and a denunciation of the homogenization of the space we inhabit..
From the experience of someone who lives between Barcelona and Buenos Aires—two cities that are experts in gentrification processes—, Core connects contemporary urgency with the pulse of a classic: Anton Chekhov. In The Cherry Orchard, written more than a century ago, the tension that suffocates us today was already beating: the cutting down of the famous to build the impersonal, the advance of a modernity that fragments space and the displacement of those who give soul to a neighborhood.
Sustainability is not just a question of natural resources, but also of cultural ecology. Keeping a century-old house standing is preserving the fabric of ties, affections and stories that define us. This work is, definitely, a requiem for felled cherry trees and crumbling facades.
