For the right to the city

An artist, walking in solitude at any given hour, searches for a place in the world to dwell. He seeks it within the museum, claiming his presence there as one who is "thrown into the world," remaining upright by any means necessary. "Por el Derecho a la ciudad" (For the Right to the City) is a 32-minute video-performance—the exact duration of the journey—conceived as an exercise in collaborative praxis alongside the residents of the Oeste 5 building: a site occupied, expropriated, and repurposed to house 17 families. The piece articulates an aesthetic situated at the very heart of the crisis of modern urbanism in the Global South. It deliberately pivots away from the "hygienic" gaze of institutional architecture to validate self-built habitats as legitimate forms of citizenship and cultural production. Here, the inhabitant of Caracas becomes the architect of their own survivability. The work underscores an "aesthetics of urgency" as a radical gesture of sovereignty. Through a narrative that intertwines the body with the debris, the piece reclaims the right not merely to inhabit the city, but to actively produce it.