Lucy + Jorge Orta, Potential Architecture

Cells are a part of the human body; they are at the origin of its being, its feelings, its emotions, and its sufferings. Thus, they speak the language of the body. There are also cells of habitation. The relationship between people and their habitat is formed in this metaphorical cell. Living and being become a single and unique life experience. Cristina Morozzi

Potential Architecture explores artists Lucy + Jorge Orta’s recent architectural
endeavors that derive from their fascination with cell biology and the process
of differentiation. Through drawings and sculpture, the artists conceptualize the
communication process the human cell undertakes from its embryonic state, and
the infinite transformations that lead to defined structural organisms.
This new body of work draws from Lucy + Jorge Orta’s artistic practice, grounded in the universal concerns of community, shelter, migration, and sustainable development. Potential Architecture is a powerful rejoinder to the arbitrary boundaries that define art, architecture, and design.

Published to coincide with the exhibition Lucy + Jorge Orta: Potential Architecture at TheGalley, Arts University Bournemouth, UK

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