2004 Hope

This is a space and time specific intervention which consists of a movie projection in an urban external wall. The movie is a sequence of 30, 12 hours DVDs of a burning candle. This giant projected candle burns slowly, consuming itself during the pas... Show More

View of the external wall of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts with the projected candle

View of the external wall of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts with the projected candle

View of the projector with the background of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts external wall with the projected candle

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View of the external wall of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts with the projected candle

View of the external wall of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts with the projected candle

View of the external wall of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts with the projected candle

View of the external wall of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts with the projected candle

View of the projection cabin at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

View of the external wall of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts with the projected candle

Project's Timeline

2004 First candle lit in San Francisco. Back in December 2004, artist Martin Bonadeo projected the piece Hope for the external wall at Yerba Buena Center for the arts in San Francisco. The projected candle was consuming every night until December 31st where it got to its minimal expression. That midnight a hand came in frame to lit a new candle.

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View of the external wall of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts with the projected candle

View of the external wall of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts with the projected candle

Hope candle projected at CCRecoleta in Buenos Aires

2010 Peace, at Buenos Aires´ Centro Cultural Recoleta

Hope was shown in a couple of cities in the United States during the first decade of the 2000s, and in 2010 a version was made in one of the rooms at Centro Cultural Recoleta. This art space borders a cemetery, giving the piece new possible interpretations. The exhibition served to show local out-of-Home Advertising companies the content of the piece, but none of the companies agreed at that time to donate their spaces for commercial reasons.