The Intimate
Maquettes Lab
Small worlds for large conversations.
A project by Pablo Gershanik
A space for revisiting complex events of our experience through a playful, panoramic and resilient gaze, drawing on a range of aesthetic and representational tools.
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An expressive experience that takes an event painfully lodged in our biography and opens it into transformation and growth, through storytelling and artistic reworking.
In each Laboratory, through a process of research and experimentation, a group of people explores different artistic resources to create a multimedia object, opening new interpretive possibilities that connect personal history with its social context.
Laboratories
Since the project began in 2019, more than 35 laboratories have taken place across 7 countries in Latin America, North America and Europe, where artists, therapists, survivors of attacks and wars, students, educators and activists have shared their lived experiences, using maquette-making to generate new expressive devices that engage with themes such as migration, memory, violence and gender, among others.
Documentary
Intimate Maquettes: The Light of the Wound
Sebastián Kohan Esquenazi and Pablo Gasca · Mexico, 2022
A group of people takes up artistic tools to make a multimedia object that opens new narratives and new links between personal and social history. This documentary follows the research and creation process of the Intimate Maquettes Laboratory through the voices of its own participants.