Arrimo UR11

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Two wooden chairs, stripped of their seats and amputated of their structural supports. The emptying of these objects' original function operates on the verge of collapse, evidencing the housing precariousness and urban neglect that threaten peripheral territories. The vulnerability is both physical and immediate.

The stabilization of the piece occurs at the intersection. A structure of solid bricks fills the voids and locks the arrangement into a system of mutual dependence. The artwork reproduces the logic of mutirão (collective community building) architecture: an informal, autonomous engineering where stability does not stem from centralized planning, but rather from the interlocking and shared weight between the parts. What would individually fall is sustained by collective bracing.

Arrimo UR11 investigates self-construction as a technology of survival. In the face of state omission, the physical alliance between the pieces materializes neighborhood solidarity. The brick that unites the structures converts scarcity into a tactical infrastructure of permanence and territorial resistance.