Our second skin

Identity, Print

Our Second Skin is a pavilion created by RADDAR as part of an investigation into the role of glass in contemporary architecture. Conceived and curated by Sol Camacho for the Chicago Architecture Biennial, the project occupies the Yates Gallery at the Chicago Cultural Center with a structure made from more than 2,200 pieces of waste generated by industrial glass manufacturing. Collected in Chicago and São Paulo, these fragments form a translucent skin that filters light, reorganizes space, and makes visible what the production process usually renders invisible. We developed the project’s visual identity and poster, seeking to graphically represent the idea of glass as our second skin—a surface clothed in ideologies and utopias, mediating the relationship between the inside and the environment around us.

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Cuba: Ficción y Fantasía spans more than three decades of the country’s artistic production. Across different generations and languages, the exhibition reveals how imagination, spirituality, humor, and criticism become ways of reinventing Cuban reality.

By Chance is a platform-artwork created to generate combinations and sets from keywords randomly drawn from collections created or curated by the artist. Like dice cast in a game of chance, these words follow specific instructions and reveal unexpected connections, opening paths for creative processes across different fields—from visual arts to education, music to literature.

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