The installation project presented by Claudia Pastomás and Lluc Margrau at Sistemastudio proposes to reinforce the domestic space not as a mere functional setting, but as a symbolic gesture: an act that sustains, protects, and makes visible the place where human relationships reach their greatest intimacy.

The home is understood here as an emotional refuge, a sensory archive, and a living memory of what is shared: an architecture of the intimate.

The home, beyond its architectural definition, is presented as a stage for memory, a container for gestures, bodies, and objects that are charged with meaning simply by having been experienced. In this context, domestic objects transcend their function and acquire a metonymic value: they are not valuable for what they are, but for what they evoke. They become intimate codes, secret languages ​​that can only be fully understood by those who have placed them in that place.

In an exercise in symbolic approximation, the use of old patterns used in furniture making is recovered and integrated to evoke and generate a visual and physical connection with a collective domestic environment through their familiarly recognizable lines. A sort of silent archive of everyday objects not only recovers these elements but also redefines them, placing them in a space of tension between memory and disappearance.

This installation seeks to recognize and emphasize these fragments of meaning. The struts do not prop up structures threatened with collapse, but rather underline and protect moments of space that arouse our interest: a corner where the light always rested, a rug that preserved the echo of a conversation, a frame where the everyday gesture of looking was repeated. Thus, the viewer moves through the different rooms of the apartment, encountering struts that, like affective markers, highlight micro-scenes of the domestic experience.

The project will be exhibited at the Sistemastudio architecture studio as part of a site-specific proposal that engages with the space and its history, reinforcing the connection between the installation and its surroundings.

This proposal is part of an artistic practice articulated around the codes of representation of memory and remembrance, understood as constructions that shape both individual identity and collective imaginaries. The project proposes a critical reflection on the boundaries between the private and the common, generating a sensitive engagement that traverses these spheres and questions their potential boundaries.

The works constitute a joint line of research by both artists, connected by a common conceptual concern: how we remember, record, and share experience. To this end, they utilize different languages ​​and media, prioritizing those that allow for an active relationship with the viewer. Interactivity, in this sense, is not only a formal resource, but a strategy to grant agency to the audience, inviting them to participate from their own positionality and subjectivity.

Considering the installation as a space for activating memory, where the intimate is projected toward the collective, and where the shared is reconfigured through individual experience. The goal is to offer works that do not close in on themselves, but rather function as open devices, capable of generating new interpretations and emotional connections between the observer, the rememberer, and the interpreter.