Itinerant
Landscape
Public space intervention
Reproduction of a small natural landscape: a laurel
tree, grass and a park bench inside a giant flowerpot suspended in the air via
a crane. The public can climb the stairs and sit in the shade of the tree. The
work traveled through three points in the city: Parque Morro Cabaña, La Piragua
(Malecón between 19 and 17) and Fuente de La Juventud (Malecón and Paseo)
during the 11th Havana Biennial.
The idea
was to achieve an appearance similar to the flowerpots that abound in patios,
windows and balconies and thus establish a relationship between the private of
an object that through scale became public and participatory. His itinerancy
gave the possibility of talking about the multiplicity of landscapes, turning
one into the other and generating experiences that achieved the idea of total
integration into the landscape of the work and its viewers. This was possible
when a gesture of individual encounter became collective and those participants
of the work who appreciated the city panorama in which this landscape had been
installed, at the same time were the object of observation of those who
inhabited the other larger landscape where this - of transit - had been
emplaced. The micro space created inside the pot invited a conscious and
transformative contemplation towards the changing exterior in each itinerancy
of the work.
