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Disruptive design biennial breaks taboos through an exploration of water and the human body

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Ntalia Torja is a New York City-based architecture and design historian, trained in modern art, design, and material culture. She holds a BFA in Interior Architecture from Centro in Mexico City and an MA in History of Art and Design with a graduate certificate in Museum Studies from Pratt Institute in New York.

who spends his time producing idiosyncratic furniture and organizing stellar people with provocative ideas.

At Centro Centro, Otero’s exhibition"Wet Dreams" goes beyond the built environment and into the human body, allowing design to happen from impulse and without restrictions. Traditional practices like pro-pluvial prayers and an 18th-century diagram of a glass bottle that used leeches as weather forecasters, share the space with contemporary projects like Philippe Rahm’s temperature informed interior design and Andrés Jaque’s climate-conscious irrigation machines.

Taking cues from the aquatic theme at the IED in Carabanchel, Cinema Parentesi installed Soft Flesh, a temporary body enveloped in silky red drapes evoking the inside of a whale. 'This was all done in a very Rocambolesque way,' says Cinema’s Stef Fusani, an artist, designer, and material culture researcher, of the idea of being gobbled up by a much larger animal, continuing to live inside that world, and turning that into a party.

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