A strange,
inexplicable malaise is
spreading throughout Earthsea.
Magic is
losing its power;
songs are being forgotten;
people and animals are sickening
or going mad.
And only a child can save our island
from the loss of imagination.
Bones drawn by kids,
skeletons of their fantasy worlds
composting our minds
lying down in the mud,
illuminated by the orange
rays of the setting sun.
The furthest shore,
a park
and all its creatures,
and all the creatures
that live
in the child’s head.
From EDEN, curated by Casa Antillón (Emmanuel Álvarez, Ismael Santos, Marta Ochoa, Yosi Negrín) via Artviewer
We dreamed of coming back to Nature and enjoying the sunlight… We wanted to forget, for an instance, the moment to exist. Let’s celebrate life and collectivity within nature. This new reborn must have a new horizon that we should construct together. Let’s build the possibility of seeing each other, listening and enjoying us. “Casa de Campo”, with its imposing vastness, can hug us all…In our conversations during these months, we constantly imagined how it will be to see and to touch us again. We agreed we had to go to the park and spend a day there together, walking and laughing. Domesticity transforms now into a domestic exterior. Maybe a picnic on the hill, as Goya illustrated next to this park in Madrid, could be the best way for meeting with snacks and drinks.
We selected 20 special spots from the park, where 20 local artists intervened with site-specific installations, sculptures, performances and paintings during this special day (the first weekend we could go out from our houses in Spain due to covid-19). With a link to Google Maps, visitors had to find each hidden spot across the biggest park of the city. Eden has become the most challenging project we could have ever done. Edén is urbanism, city, landscape and art. Edén is born almost spontaneously, with the need to look for a ray of light in the face of the dark and fragile situation in which we live. Nothing seems what it was anymore and we do not know how it will be. Collectivity practices are reconciled with nature and the experience of visiting a park is resignified through spontaneity and art. Eden is conceived as a project of contemporary architecture because it understands and reacts to what happens in society and where the city is the protagonist again.
