Curatorship:
Iliana Hoyos

Artists

Lucas Gallego
Carolina Borrero

In Geologías desplazadas, by Lucas Gallego & Carolina Borrero, materiality and its historical weight raise a question that overflows architecture itself: from which territories do the forms revealed as a city’s own originate? Rather than studying the architectural icon as evidence of a successful historical era, the work proposes connecting the traces of what was extracted, transformed, and relocated to make its existence possible.

From this perspective, architecture ceases to be an isolated object and emerges as the visible result of a much broader territorial network. The mountain no longer functions merely as a visual backdrop, but as matter transformed and fragmented into stone, debris, surface, or structure—a presence that does not disappear with relocation.

The columns constructed from salvaged materials deepen this operation. They do not seek to reconstruct a lost architecture or reproduce its firmness, but rather to illuminate its provisional condition: layers of past uses, fragments from other places, and remnants returning to circulation. The support ceases to be that which remains hidden, transforming instead into a surface of memory, revelation, and fragility.

This displacement expands the scale of reading, as what occurs between the mountain and the city can also be understood as a metaphor for what has unfolded across our continental geography: extractions, circulation routes, and territorial transformations that have shaped America as a realm fragmented by an idea of progress. From the Andes to the Amazon, these operations connect landscapes, matter, and cities—revealing that what holds architecture up also carries the traces of the territories that made it possible.