THREE-KEY HOUSE (In Progress)

Videoinstallation (Virtual images, video, sound, ceramic pieces), Centro Cultural Cigarerras, 2024.

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The project Three-Key House functions as a laboratory for exploring working-class housing as a site of collective resistance and a space for experimenting with radical imagination.

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The project takes its name from the cases de dos claus or two-key houses, a typology of communal workers' housing that emerged in Alcoy (Alicante, Spain) during industrialization. The housing demands of the time led to the construction of narrow buildings, sometimes up to five stories high, where dwellings were subdivided into multiple rooms and occupied by different families. To move between rooms, residents had to pass through a shared staircase, requiring them to lock their spaces (hence, two keys—one for each room) to safeguard their belongings and privacy.

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This local historical example serves as a point of departure for recovering, understanding, and experimenting with alternative ways of conceiving and relating to domestic space. The project unfolds through a research-production methodology that integrates readings, interviews, archival work, and experimental image-making processes. As such, it becomes a device aimed at expanding the boundaries of the conceivable.

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Project developed within the framework of Cultura Resident – Production Residencies, supported by the Consorci de Museus and the Centro Cultural Cigarreras.​

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CGI: Desireé Quevedo. Programming: Andrea Benito. Editing: Pablo Jurado. Photographic documentation: Leticia Hueda. Accompaniment: Roser Colomar, Tono Vizcaíno, Laura Salguero, Grandeza Studio, Daniel Marquina. Acknowledgments: Belén Cerezo, Manuel Horn, Bucólica Studio, Raquel Planas, Asunción Navarro, Lucía Pérez, Clea Mitjans, Katia Ulivier, Jorge Domenech, Paco Martínez, Edurne Vaello, Raquel Buj, Yael Vidal, Alcoy Municipal Archive.

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