Blurring the Boundary
Year
Location
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2018
Venice, Italy
Competition
Adrián Flores, Carolina Segura, David de la Garza
200 m2
This project is a response to an Open Call by the National Pavilions of Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands for the 2018 Venice Biennale. The task was to make an intervention in the pavilions' surroundings. Our proposal was to cover the walkways with a sea of blue-coloured gravel, transforming the pavilions into islands. The edges of the interventions would be clear-cut at the time of the Bienale’s opening. During the following months the visitors’ movement would start to blur the boundaries and mix the new gravel with the existing one, eventually merging seamlessly with the rest of the Biennale. With the passage of time we would find pieces of blue gravel farther and farther away from its origin.
The intervention would put forward two ideas; the first is that in events such as the Biennale, ideas from a Pavilion cross-pollinate with those in others. The richness of the exhibition comes from the diversity of contents. The intervention would be a visual representation of how these ideas are spread across the world. It would also highlight the fact that traditionally in these exhibitions is the inaugural day when everything is neat and tidy and where the focus of everyone is centered, but after these initial days that exhibitions start to be forgotten and fall into a state of disrepair.