Elegy for a Space

Places carry a unique atmosphere, shaped by its light, sounds, textures, memory, habits, and countless more particularities. Even after leaving it behind, something of that space remains with us: traces of its character, its rhythms, its scars.

Elegy for a Space reflects on and extends the moment in which a place lingers between what it once was and what it is about to become—a suspended state where the past still inhabits the present, while transformation feels imminent. Through materials, gestures, and spatial interventions, the work approaches mourning as a way of attending to a space before it disappears and becomes something else.

Drawing on fieldwork and lived experience in southern Spain, the installation unfolds as a tangible poem, given structure by walls, paths, textures, and objects. It asks how places are remembered, how memory reshapes architecture, and whether—or how—spaces too, may be mourned.