2005 Sky Under the Earth

From its flowerpot in the middle of a tunnel, a plant will test the efficiency of a precarious analogical device designed to connect it with the outside. This site specific installation was developed for a pedestrian tunnel with four access stairs, t... Show More

Tunnel scale model

The pot with the palm tree in the middle of the tunnel with lenses and screens over it

Lens projecting image of people in the tunnel

Large-format mirrors reflecting the sky and streetlights

Lens projecting image of the tunnel upside down

Large-format mirrors reflecting the sky and streetlights

Large-format mirrors reflecting the sky and streetlights

The pot with the palm tree in the middle of the tunnel with lenses and screens over it

Plan of the tunnel with the mirrors describing the path of the light

Lens projecting image of the tunnel with the mirrors upside down

Lens projecting image of the tunnel with the mirrors upside down

Lens projecting image of the tunnel with the mirrors upside down

Sky Under the Earth project render video

In 2005, Horacio Torres invited me to do a project in a 50-meter long tunnel that crosses Avenida del Libertador in Buenos Aires. It's a tunnel that used to be closed and abandoned. The video summarizes the proposal I made to the curator of the space called "Cruce de Artes" during that time.