Anna Moreno. The Third Twist

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Image courtesy of MACBA

Three projects by Ricardo Bofill and three stories by James Graham Ballard formed The Terminal Beach, the final installment of a trilogy that reflected on temporality through utopian architecture and the potential of speculative imagination.

In The Third Twist, the artist employed the format of the road movie to document the state of a nomadic settlement built in 1979 by Bofill in the Algerian Sahara under the commission of President Houari Boumediene. The construction fell within the framework of the architect’s utopian period, when his studio (RBTA) operated as an amalgam of architects, poets, painters and others. What had been planned as a complex built according to modern criteria ultimately remained unfinished, revealing the tension between the dream of the period and the realities of modern colonial legacies.

Anna Moreno (1984) was a visual artist working between Barcelona and The Hague. Her research-based artistic practice focused on the unfinished nature of historical and future events while questioning processes of documentation during post-production. Her research intertwined concepts from finance, utopian architecture and speculative literature through installations, films or live events.

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