This book functions as an artist’s book — a photographic essay born from Os Espacialistas’ poetic and performative encounter with Fenda, the installation by architects Manuel and Francisco Aires Mateus at the 2016 Venice Biennale of Architecture.
Inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s advice to find worlds within wall cracks, Os Espacialistas explored the rift created by the Aires Mateus brothers. Transforming into a wooden sphere drawn toward a line of light, they embarked on a spheroscopic journey through organic and geometric voids, as if traversing a living body.
The Spherical Being — a metaphor for the body and the spatialist gaze — moved freely: entering the fissure, circling spaces, bending at corners, resting in concavities, and receiving light from every direction. Immersed in thought and captured in photographs, it experienced a Promenade Architecturale.
In its rolling reflection, echoes of Magritte, De Maria, De Chirico, Man Ray, and Dürer emerged, turning this horizon line into a spatial and artistic journey through memory and imagination.