12'000 meters systemic walking was installed for the 1st time at the Mafra National Palace in Portugal, however it is a sculpture that can be installed in other locations because it is adjustable to the space in which it is placed.
My installations began as freestanding architectural sculptures, cabin-like pieces with their own interior environments. Objects that a person could enter to feel and grasp beyond physical limits. The inside and outside of a permeable sculpture. This series of works is dedicated to the relationship between space, time, light, sound and the sculpture object created on site. These are works that reflect a silent thought about the universal elements incorporated in all human constructions.
About the Location:
Built in the 18th century by King D. João V, The Chapel of Campo Santo is included inside the Royal Convent of Mafra in Portugal and was a mortuary chapel. The patients from the convent's ward, the first one in portugal for the terminally ill, unable to walk outdoors were given the opportunity to attend, from the side tribunes, the exequies of those that died in the convent. On the altar a painting by Pierre-Antoine Quillard , The Last Supper, (1730) faces the main entrance and some long, narrow, very high windows. For 60 days the artist walked 12 kilometers inside the small Chapel while unwinding out a superfine fiber from a coil. The suspended sculpture derives from this continuous movement and connects the two opposite tribunes. With a 4 meters wide and 30 meters long, the object is weaved from fiberglass roving yarn, thus, enabling the subtil reflection of natural light along the day.
