"Garage Encounters positions exhibition design as a fully architectural act that operates through space, construction, circulation, and public encounter. Approximately 80 percent of the construction draws from previous exhibition materials, reassembled and reactivated within the new scenography. These elements carry their own histories, embedding past cultural moments into the present configuration. Before this transformation could occur, the space itself had to be reset."
"Fragments and echoes of well-known institutions, including Serralves, Sir John Soane's Museum, El Prado, and the Uffizi, are displaced and re-enacted as atmospheric references. Removed from their original authority, these spaces appear more informal, their institutional rigidity softened through exposure. This deliberate merging recalls Harald Szeemann's When Attitude Becomes Form (1969), where process and display were inseparable. At Garagem Sul, construction methods, joints, reused elements, and infrastructural components are presented as part of the spatial narrative."
Garage Encounters creates a 2,200-square-meter semi-permanent scenography and exhibition framework for Garagem Sul at Lisbon's MAC/CCB conceived by Daniel Zamarbide and Carine Pimenta. The project treats exhibition design as architecture by making construction, circulation, and public encounter legible. Fragments of institutions like Serralves, Sir John Soane's Museum, El Prado, and the Uffizi are displaced as atmospheric references. Construction methods, joints, reused elements, and infrastructure remain visible. Approximately 80 percent of materials derive from previous exhibitions. The space was cleared, existing materials exposed, and natural light reinstated. The scenography opens into gathering zones functioning as a civic, adaptive public space.
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