Flaubert said, "Just when the gods had ceased to be, and the Christ had not yet come, there was a unique moment in history, when man stood alone."

In 1948, with all its symbolic implications, a Roman column from Djemila, Algeria, was placed on a podium next to the grand staircase leading to the Faculty of Architecture in Montevideo, a project by architect Román Fresnedo Siri. Seventy-six years later, BARO moves the memory of a neoclassical column from the former Congress of Santiago, Chile, into the interior of 8 ½.

In the first case, the column is real; "Macizo," contradicting its name, is a mold made on-site with metal foil. The decontextualization of an object, aiming to question the concept of dimension and scale. A fragile and hollow body, an echo of a previous material presence.

A dual condition between space and form converges within 8 ½. The container, a modern and functional space, with standard dimensions adjusted like a glove to the size of a small vehicle. The content, the memory of a monumental order defined in terms of relationships, which no longer sustains (itself).