Why do we go to such great lengths to preserve ruins from the past as ruins, just as they are, barely rising from the ground, with all their wounds carefully maintained as bloody wounds.

“El abrigo de las ruinas” is an exhibition about some of the contemporary efforts made to preserve the legacy of the past just as it appears when it is unearthed. Preserving entails covering: building protective shells that keep alive the memory of what things were, but in the exact state they reappear.

Through a selection of international architectural projects, built from the 1930s onwards and mainly in the 21st century, we see how the problem of erecting covers over ruins to protect them has been tackled, to keep the image of a ruin as something no longer perceived as something  destroyed, but rather as a work which has taken on a new nature.

A chance to reflect on our relationship with the past.

Exhibition curated by Pedro Azara and Tiziano Schürch.

Photo gallery

Pictures from the exhibition. With Pedro Azara, curator of the exhibition, and Marta Marín-Dòmine, director of El Born CCM