As photographs, the work presented in the exhibition might have limited appeal. As architecture, however, these photographs insert themselves into a specific context to begin altering it, making the architecture seen and heard. The exhibition elevates fashion photography, with its legendary connection to the superficiality of appearances, invoking it as both a documentary mechanism and an ironically critical tool, thereby relegating architecture to a secondary role, assigning it the position of co‑protagonist among other actors.
The narrative is continuously rewritten by the architect, curator, photographer, stylist, poet, graphic designer, and viewer, revealing a space of endless potential that exists between performance, documentary device, building, drawing, narrative, and script. Urban Intimacies is inspired by a recent OH studio project: a peculiar attic hidden in central Madrid, where a series of unusual spatial conditions and adjacencies give rise to a game of unexpected potentials. Reflecting the desires embedded in the house’s design, the architecture manifests in the gaps between representation media, between images, as a space of desire within the exhibition space, where the viewer simultaneously becomes actor, reader, artist, interpreter, and translator.

Accompanying the exhibition, a 64‑page publication has been designed by Tres Tipos Gráficos and includes an essay by Tina DiCarlo, photographs by Ciszak Dalmas Tamagno and Miguel de Guzmán, poetry by Gonzalo Escarpa, and plans and texts by OH / Paloma Hernaiz and Jaime Oliver. Gonzalo Escarpa will also perform a Perfopoesía event during the opening at 8:00 PM.

The exhibition and publication have been generously supported by the Embassy of Spain in Berlin.