La Ciudad Transparente is a deeply evocative installation by Juan Roberto Diago that imagines a world built from fragility and innocence. The work consists of numerous small houses made from wooden sticks, arranged in a way that creates a sense of layering and accumulation, resembling a child’s simplistic line drawing of a city. The structure, with its delicate and transparent nature, alludes to the fragility of urban spaces and the transient qualities of life within them.

The overwhelming number of houses stacked on top of each other could suggest a sense of overcrowding, the displacement of people, or the pressure of survival in an urban environment. The transparency of the houses, almost ghost-like in their construction, highlights the impermanence of these structures and their inhabitants, evoking themes of vulnerability, memory, and the imperceptible connections between individuals and their spaces.

This piece resonates with the notion of community, where individual lives are layered and interconnected yet remain ephemeral and subject to the forces of time and change. Diago’s La Ciudad Transparente invites reflection on the realities of contemporary urban life, the fragility of spaces, and the invisible presence of people living within them.