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Ivan L. Munuera (in collaboration with Vivian Rotie+Pablo Saiz)
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PrEPBread
Ivan L. Munuera (in collaboration with Vivian Rotie+Pablo Saiz)

PrEP Bread is a visual project developed for the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale consisting of a graphic novel, mappings, microbiological cartographies, archeological botanies, and other graphic materials. It discusses the architecture and wide cartographies involved in the production of PrEP, its consumption, its marketing, its sociopolitical implications, and the uneven geographies that it produces.

PrEP, or Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, has revolutionized bodies and their chemical landscapes. Used to prevent contracting HIV, tenofovir and emtricitabine block the enzyme that HIV needs to replicate, thereby reducing the amount of virus in the body. To enhance their absorption, it should be taken with a light meal, and gluten-free bread has been proven effective. Both PrEP and gluten-free bread are not self-contained entities but expanded geographies where politics and ideologies are debated configuring internal organs, chemical regimes, ingested food, bacteria that live off of air, viruses that coexist with bodies, batteries that charge electronic devices and the electricity grids that power them.

Exhibitions
- 18th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, 2023
- BGS-QD, The LGBT Center in New York, 2023-24
- Casa de la Arquitectura, Madrid, 2024

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