Saving this (ground-birth), Rocks, painted rocks, 2017
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The rocks used in this work located in a field used or agriculture more than 30 years ago. Since then it's waiting for permissions to build on. The location of this land, next to highway and near the city trying to represent with the simple act of placing rocks, painted white, the changes groups make in the ground they are living at, and the way they are deciding it. The rocks trying to explore the attempt to control the ground and use it for human needs.
When two different ideas are trying to save and preserve a specific past in order to control the ability to decide what he future for a specific land will be, it's easier to observe and critique the possibilities regarding a group future, and ask more questions regarding the land and culture. |
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