“The statement Everything solid vanishes in the air addresses the complex paradox that unites utopia and reality, innovation and Capitalism. The starting point is a famous quote by Karl Marx. A thought that political scientist and urbanist Marshall Berman glimpsed as the possibility of understanding 'the modern' as a consequence of a certain conception of life encouraged by capitalism, in which 'innovation' encourages the expansion of human desires beyond limits. Berman traversed some of the humanist and spiritual sources of modernity - Baudelaire, Le Corbusier, Goethe - to show that progress forces us to assume mutations and abolish the limits of canon, geography or morality. Sofia Jack, visits places that embodied modern rationality to investigate its reverse, and how the human factor - desires, fears and affections - cracks an idea of reason and order that becomes utopia...”

Alejandro Martínez