Our project is inspired by the isoptic of the central hall of the Liceu, and the classic image that represents it – the institution’s logo; thus, some first approaches to the language of the exhibition emerge, which are specified in ovoidal structures that define the four rooms of the exhibition. Under the influence of the geometries present in the sculptural work of Richard Serra, the project distinguishes between linear spaces (in the first and third rooms) and auditorium spaces (second and fourth rooms).

The former, with their linear geometry, accompany a chronological curatorial discourse while the latter are the nodal points of the exhibition where their energy is concentrated. Thus arises a first, central and closed auditorium, where the visitor feels part of the reconstruction of the theater: an ovoid where the projection of a large-scale video of the reconstruction process contains models and reproductions of parts of the project. Finally and to conclude the exhibition, a last space with a clear technological will, formed by two opposing auditoriums that exhibit the technologies already incorporated in today’s theater, and what repercussions and visions the institution has for the near and distant future.

At the same time, the project recovers a very low-cost exhibition system, experienced previously, but turns the original system –linear and Cartesian– into an organic and free system, capable of appealing to warped surfaces and generating changing spaces along a extended range travel. The decision to incorporate the language of the fabrics arises for two clear reasons: on the one hand, budget restrictions and the flexibility to generate different spaces in an ever-changing exhibition; on the other hand, the need to generate a spatial effect on the visitor by merging content and container, since most of the material to be exhibited in the exhibition was audiovisual projected on a large, small and medium scale. Thus, the aim was to create a space close to the illusion and magic of the opera, to give the exhibition a festive, solemn and commemorative character.