On May 6, FIU Department of Architecture professors Marcelo Ertorteguy and Sara Valente, co-founders of the design studio STEREOTANK, celebrated the opening of CORNUCOPIA at LOT-EK’s Yellow Wall in New York City.
Marcelo and Sara describe CORNUCOPIA as a retrospective of STEREOTANK’s journey, looking back, around, and forward at the same time. The exhibition brings together early works from the firm’s beginnings in New York, including public art installations, habitable instruments, and hands-on experiments, with current investigations and speculative futures.
At its core, the work comes from a simple impulse: to take things apart and put them back together differently. Through altering, adapting, and combining objects, STEREOTANK creates hybrids that resist belonging to a single category.
CORNUCOPIA is an open-ended expression of that ongoing process, rooted in intuition, experimentation, and transformation. It reflects the nationally recognized, innovative teaching and research practice that Marcelo and Sara bring to FIU Architecture. The exhibition remained on view in New York City through the month of May.
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A design studio founded by Marcelo Ertorteguy and Sara Valente, STEREOTANK explores the common ground among architecture, art, and sound. The studio operates as a laboratory for the creation of architectural artifacts, immersive installations, and hybrid objects, often with recycled and prefabricated materials and components. STEREOTANK is particularly interested in activating public space through participatory projects that engage, entertain, and educate audiences.
Following the opening of CORNUCOPIA, Marcelo and Sara reflected on the significance of returning to New York nearly a decade after STEREOTANK first began there:
“…It was incredibly meaningful to return to the city where STEREOTANK began, reconnect with old friends and colleagues, and share this new chapter of our work nearly ten years later…
“We’re deeply grateful to LOT-EK for welcoming us with the generosity, warmth, and spirit that has always made them feel like family to us. We thank them for the invitation to transform the Yellow Wall into an overflowing landscape of images, artifacts, experiments, and speculative hybrids and, with Marina Correia, for hosting a thoughtful and inspiring conversation about our work, nature, technology, and the future of imagination.”
