Name: “Sleeping sculpture” (2016 - 2018)

 

Installation (metal mesh sculpture with audiovisual projection on and through it). The installation consists of a sculpture inspired by the sculpture “El Sueño” ("Dream") by P.E. Fiaschi, made with metal mesh (measures: 1.50m x 1.45m x 0.65m, scale 1: 1) and a projection of a video recorded in the place of its actual location (Rambla República de México between Arocena st. and Divina Comedia st.) at three different times of the day.

 

This piece is part of my final work of graduation from the Bachelor´s Degree of  Visual Arts at I.ENBA-UdelaR in which I conducted an investigation on the context and projection of the Montevidean statuary placed in the public space. The volume is a replica of the sculpture “El Sueño” by P.E. Fiaschi (1916) located on Rambla República de México between Arocena st. and Divina Comedia st. The proposal seeks to encourage discussions about how  “art” affects the design of public spaces through a comparative analysis between their past and current conception.