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ARTEFICATION: Rerooting culture through Latin narratives
Collection:UAL Art Collection
Date: 2025
Artist: David Aguilera Pérez
Dimensions:
Workshop materials: variable
Film: Film: 7 min 27 sec.
Triptych: TBC
Medium: Digital illustration (Revit, Photoshop, Illustrator)
Paper on construction hoarding
Digital video (HD), with sound
Mixed media on paper (hand-drawn with markers)
Object number: UAC 1176
DescriptionDavid studied MA Cities at Central Saint Martins. He says, 'Arts, culture, and material culture both subvert and accelerate gentrification. In London’s Elephant and Castle, the displacement of the Latin American community reveals this tension. The proposed “Cultural Mile” linking the area to Tate Modern reactivates erased cultural life through dispersed, participatory artworks that spatialise memory and continuity. Grounded in urban analysis and social practice, the project treats magical realism as both method and narrative—a tool to resist the colonial logic of regeneration and its erasures. Through storytelling and collaborative interventions, displaced communities reclaim identity, reframing their urban presence through inclusive, imaginative forms of cultural and spatial resilience.
The triptych [included in this body of work] presents a moralistic perspective of Elephant and Castle´s transformation—from a state of innocence and divine order to a celebration of its unique culture expressed through the proposed artworks, and finally to a vision of damnation, where regeneration itself becomes a tool of torment, ultimately erasing the area's social and cultural identity'.
The triptych [included in this body of work] presents a moralistic perspective of Elephant and Castle´s transformation—from a state of innocence and divine order to a celebration of its unique culture expressed through the proposed artworks, and finally to a vision of damnation, where regeneration itself becomes a tool of torment, ultimately erasing the area's social and cultural identity'.