Model of “The Garden”
On a wooden table (w: 2 x 4 m, h: 1,3 m)
is placed a model of a garden built with natural materials
(vegetable elements) collected in the Gulbenkian garden. With
this imaginary reconstruction, resulting of a process of
knowledge and invention, the artist summons her perceptive and
physical experiences of the garden, her memories and sensations
of the place.
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HAN, performance / trench between
Eucalyptus and the Building
Trench, perpendicular to the temporary
exibition gallery, dug between the eucalyptus, centenary tree
of the old Sta Gertrudes Park and the building. The artist
marks on the ground the area to be worked and begins the
careful displacement of the soil, heading to the building and
using as the starting point one of the eucalyptus’s
roots. This operation is done as an archaeological excavation,
in other words – as landscape archaeology. The purpose of
this action is to establish the relationship between the artist
and the discovery.
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Disguise / performance
in the Garden
in the Garden
On each one of the slates are placed
successive layers of sand used for drainage, thermal wrap,
soil, seeds, on a carefully planned amount allowing the growing
of the prairie grass during the exibition and its use later on
the refurbished areas of the Park, where this type of grass has
been recently adopted.
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Ladder
Wood ladder built according to a
meticulous system of fittings and screws, which is a solid work
of woodcraft that gives the illusion of direct passage to the
exterior.
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