18th January 2025 — 23th February 2025

Espaço Irene Vilar, Museu Quinta de Santiago

This exhibition visually reflects the failed promise of brutalist social housing, exploring the duality between architectural ideals and their decaying reality 50 years after the original plan. Inspired by Judith Martin’s analyses of brutalism, the artist adopts a critical perspective by juxtaposing images capturing the degradation of concrete and abstract photographs of the same material. These serve as the foundation for a critical essay on the nonconformity of past utopian ideals.

“This work is a critique of our surroundings. It’s a manifesto highlighting how time and decay have transformed these structures into symbols of displacement and misalignment,” explains the artist.

This Was Tomorrow proposes a dialogue between urbanism, sustainability, and the relevance of these spaces in contemporary cities. It questions the social and aesthetic impacts of urban projects that once promised utopia but now bear the marks of time and neglect.