ESPACIOS DIBUJADOS
Drawn spaces are constructions, or rather objects in transit, that do not aim to fix anything but to open up possibilities. This exhibition shares a personal, almost secret space—the space of freedom found in the very act of drawing. Lines on paper that abandon that condition to engage with space, where, far from intending to represent anything, they seek to establish spatial relationships through geometry.
These are objects that result from constructing lines in the air, of the same thickness as the pencil stroke that once fixed them on paper; lines that recognize themselves, or each other, simply by affinity.
When they overlap, they might, perhaps, suggest traversable places; other times—most times—they will simply have no purpose.
Their reality is no longer found on the plane of the paper, nor in the real world. These lines do not aspire to be, nor to suggest, an identifiable space but rather to express that space of doubt, ultimately, a space of freedom.
Josep Miàs (Banyoles, Gerona, 1966), sculptor, architect, and professor of Architectural Practice at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London. He graduated as an architect in 1992 from ETSAB_UPC.
In 2020, the Centre Pompidou acknowledged Josep Miàs’s global significance by dedicating a monographic exhibition, Unpredictable Traces (Paris, september 2020 – october 2021), and acquiring his artworks for its Permanent Collection. In 2022, the Government of Catalonia and the City Council of Barcelona honored his international achievements with a monographic exhibition The Making of Making (Architecture) (Barcelona, november 2021 – january 2022) at the Museum of Design and Architecture of Barcelona.
In 2024, the American Institute of Architects honored Josep Miàs as a 2024 Honorary AIA Fellow for “his exceptional work and contributions to architecture and society on an international level.”
