DE AZAMBUJA’S “FOUNDATION”: INTERVENTION AND REFLECTION AT LA CASA ENCENDIDA

La Casa Encendida in Madrid presents Fundación, a project by Marlon de Azambuja (Porto Alegre, Brazil, 1978) conceived specifically to transform one of the building’s central towers into a walk-through sculpture. Curated by Bruno Leitão, this sculptural installation reflects on the concept of founding through its direct intervention in the exhibition space.

Drawing on the semantic possibilities of the term, the installation materializes as a work that understands founding as the search for a foundation: a pillar from which, in a capillary manner, one can reach that which sustains knowledge.

This approach continues through a technique characteristic of the artist, in which matter is positioned as the epicenter of the experiential field. The work fits squarely within his recognizable practice, where materials and gestures conceptually and physically modify existing structures to bring together the relationship between body, matter, and context.

Moving away from passivity, the ground and sculptural details in Fundación become active accumulators of memory and the experiences of those who pass through the space. Through a rethinking of the existing architecture, De Azambuja seeks to question the conventional limits and classifications of the rational and the emotional, facilitating a connection built through experience.

Marlon de Azambuja. Fundación can be seen until September 27, 2026, at La Casa Encendida, Ronda de Valencia, 2, Madrid (Spain).