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Metros Verdes
Intervención en espacio público
2013

Lima es una de las ciudades que presenta menor área verde por habitante: 2,9m2 en promedio; distritos como San Juan de Lurigancho y Breña presentan cantidades menores a 1m2. Aún así las áreas verdes están en constante riesgo de ser privatizadas, según la lógica de progreso y mercado. Metros Verdes es una instalación que juega con esa posibilidad de privatización del espacio común. La intervención se realizó en el cruce de las Av. Arica y Aguarico en el distrito de Breña. 

Green Meters
Intervention in public space
2013 

askjfhsakj;fhak;jsdfjh;dsfhasdjkfhasdfhaksjd;fjakldsjfasd;fjasdfkja;sdfja;sdfjthe idea of displacement in relation to the transformation of the territory became important in this stage of my work.The materiales I was working with became the elements, the protagonists, the materiality of the elements speak and have the discourse in relation to the space where they were placed.In Who colonizes whom? a site specific work in Lang Craig (an area being reforested and protected by The Woodlands Trust), I work with clay I took from the site. I made plates of this clay and cement and, placed them up on one of the hills simulating a grid, as a way of de-marking the terrain. The aim was to play with the possibility and risk of the land being used under the logic of progress and modernity.

The period of time in which the piece was exposed to the natural environment and climate subverted their physical quality and presence of the materials; its materiality acquired ephemeral and impermanent characteristics. The cement plates broke but the plates made of clay changed and adapted their shape to the terrain. I focused on this transformation and adaptation of the materials over time and continued experimenting in the studio. I was interested in the tension generated between the movement of the terrain and its stillness, a terrain that was suspended and was being forced to adapt while the drops of water counted the time and desintegrated it.This durational piece was documented with photos and video.