LIGA 43 – Dubganem+ (Arg)

Moments of Stress

LIGA 43 – Moments of Stress (Arg)
Dubganem+
October 2026 – February 2027

Dubganem is an Argentine practice based in Buenos Aires, founded by architect Angie Dub and engineer Sonia Ganem. From this intersection of disciplines emerges a body of work that approaches each project as both a technical and an ethical question: systematically measuring and reducing the environmental impact of what they build, while bringing together structural and constructional rigor with a sensitivity to material.

Moments of Tension makes visible what architecture usually conceals. Within LIGA’s space, a series of steel plates of varying gauges is suspended through a system of pulleys, tensioners, and anchors that holds them in a state of unstable equilibrium. Depending on its thickness and weight, each sheet deforms differently, tracing in the air the forces acting upon it. What we see is, quite literally, matter under the pressure of gravity: calculated deformation, put on display.

Yet the tension that gives the exhibition its name extends beyond the structural. The installation simultaneously brings into question the pressures inherent to the profession and those of the system that sustains it: extractivism and the questionable practices that accompany the imperative to keep building. To do so, Dubganem turns to steel, one of the industry’s most in-demand materials, whose value is shaped by markets and geopolitical forces. Moments of Tension understands architecture both as a material practice and as an actor within the complex system of the neoliberal market.

Photos: Arturo Arrieta