Sylvie Macías Díaz’s work can be seen as a playful highlighting of architectural and social conventions. Thus, in her drawings and collages, she often denounces the traditional view of the position of women in Western society. The artist is best known for her architectural models made from crates. Between 1999 and 2009, she salvaged wooden crates from markets, most of which had contained fruit, and recycled them into combining irony, playfulness and protest. With les maquettes, the artist confronts the aesthetic architecture in the modernist tradition with poor elements, and draws plans that offer a space of freedom to the potential user. N.MoCA.L #1 participates in utopian architecture, museum fiction; it’s an attempt to structure the chaos that surrounded the Mamac, the almost-abandoned Musée d’Art moderne et contemporain de Liège even before the announcement of its closure. But is also an artistic action, a personal desire to take part in the debate with a language and means of its own: irony and crates. (Julie Hanique – Genaro Marcos)