San Felipe Condominium

This series, conceived by the duo of photographers, arose initially as a project to illustrate the book of poems San Felipe Blues, by writer Bruno Mendizábal, and later took on a life of its own. It explores an interest for the architecture of a particular moment of urban growth: the peak of the expansion of Lima’s middle class during the second half of the twentieth century and of the city’s relative modernization. From this perspective, the images emphasize the emptiness of certain public spaces: meeting spaces, passages between one building and another, or small commercial establishments with a homey air. Thus, the path around the outside of the architectural complex is completed with the shots of household interiors, revealing that these spaces, almost frozen in time, are also the illusory spaces of a middle class imprisoned by a historically marked architecture, without apparent exits to the symbols in its design.