This image represents a typical motif of a heterotopia, as Foucault would call it. The Helicoide was conceived in the 1950s as a temple of consumption for people with cars - the center of modernity in Caracas.
But this building was never completed. Today, it serves as a torture jail under the current Venezuelan regime.
The picture is built with the text “heterotopia” - each letter and word forming the architectural structure, revealing how spaces transform their meaning over time. What was designed as a symbol of progress became a symbol of oppression.
Digital Edition
This work is available as a digital edition in the Lettrism Collection - a hybrid exploration fusing archive photography with Foucault’s spatial theory through algorithmic text-image transformation.