Elii 126 – AWOMAWO

126 – AWOMAWO
A World of Many Worlds

Design of the Simon Space at Casadecor 2020, Madrid

PROJECT DESCRIPTION
“In the Anthropocene, Humans are now at war not with Nature, but with […] the
Terrestrials. […] To put it in the style of a geohistorical fiction. Humans living
in the Holocene epoch are in conflict with the Terrestrials of the Anthropocene.
Bruno Latour, Face to Face with the Planet
The 2020 edition of Casa Decor was held this year in an emblematic building designed by the
architect José Espelíus Anduaga, located in the Madrid’s upscale Salamanca neighborhood.
From this early 20th century building, the Simon space will give Casa Decor visitors pause to
reflect on the world to come in the 21st century.
AWOMAWO (A World Of MAny WOrlds) is a meeting place for different worlds. The project is
set up as a space within another space, a place to experience a world of many worlds, a cosmos
that can be transformed through light…
Upon arrival at AWOMAWO, the visitor is welcomed by the first zone, an orderly passage of
well-defined geometries: this is the space where humans live. Enveloping this first space are a
number of diverse, living and changing ecosystems: this space is the one that encompasses the
rest of the Terrestrials. A light, continuous boundary connects and separates each zone,
configuring a succession of enveloping environments: the plane of interaction between the two,
a cosmopolitical front where Humans and Terrestrials must face their desires, interests, and
needs.
The Simon space for Casa Decor 2020 has been designed by the elii architecture office together
with the artist María Jerez. The team devised an interior landscape of light, plants, minerals,
and everyday objects: a vibrantly colorful multiverse that creates ambiguous relationships
between entities, ephemeral compositions of diffuse materialities, ghostly images of mixed
bodies, of multiplied and crossed gazes… that place the spectator in an ambiguous position
blurs the line between who is the subject and who is the object.
In times like now in which we live in a new climate regime, AWOMAWO offers visitors a place
to experience and reflect on the problematic place that humans take on the planet and their
responsibilities. As part of its commitment to the theme of this year’s Casa Decor, the materials
used to stage the Simon space will be recycled after the exhibition. The plants will be donated
and replanted. All the wood used will be recycled. The Tarkett flooring will be reclaimed by the
manufacturer for treatment in a recycling program. And finally, the lamps will be taken down
and stored by Simon for future events. The space will thus be given a new life.

CREDITS
Architects
elii – Uriel Fogué + Eva Gil + Carlos Palacios
www.elii.es

Art work and landscape design
María Jerez
https://mariajerez.tumblr.com/

Architect coordinating the team
elii – Ana López

Collaborators
elii – Lucía Fernández, Raquel García, Marta Vaquero

Many thanks
Juan Ruíz Rivas – Art pieces
www.jrrstudio.es

Light programming
David Herranz – Dasoingenieros

Graphics
elii. Characters inspired in Moebius (Jean Giraud)

Developer
Simon

Construction
Aniceto Jiménez

Joinery
Alfredo Merino Caldas

Collaborating companies
Simon – Lighting
Juan Ruíz Rivas – Art pieces
Tarkett – Pavement
Valentine – Paint
Samsung – Tablets
Colorker / ZYX – Ceramic pieces.

Photography
ImagenSubliminal (Miguel de Guzmán + Rocío Romero)

Video
ImagenSubliminal (Miguel de Guzmán + Rocío Romero)

Music
Lemon Lime by Brevyn

DATOS BÁSICOS
Surface
38,28m2
Date
2020
Location
CasaDecor 2020, C/ Velázquez 21, Madrid