Jojo Fuentes is a painter from Santiago Chile, who is interested in how architectural space affects individuals and communities on a psychological and social level. Her exhibition Villa Portales documents a social housing complex, an icon of modern architecture and urban planning of the 1950s and 1960s Santiago. Cristian Vidal’s documentary, made in conjunction with Fuentes’ exhibition, introduces this representative work of modern Chilean architecture. The film contrasts earlier social housing designed to generate community with the “large and inhumane vertical ghettos”, characteristic of low-income housing today.
