Work in progress: My next installation "Adaptability"

Since April 2014, and after a long brake trying to adapt to my new home in Switzerland, I have been working in my new installation "Adaptability".

"ADAPTABILITY is about multicultural cities and its challenges.

The paradox of Globalization is that in one side is bringing us closer: standardizing quotidian objects and habits, disseminating knowledge and languages, universalizing cultures and ideologies… On the other side, it is facilitating the migration flows, what is pushing us to cohabit with other cultures and confront differences.

What a priory could bring us to a common ground, smooth differences and promote understanding; in fact it is making our cities more diverse than ever, rising cultural tensions and becoming integration a daily challenge.

Globalization, free movement policies, economic crisis… More than ever our cities are receiving people from around the world. A new model of society that integrates all this diversity is needed.

This installation is about flexibility and adaptation to space and context. The installation consist in the repetition of many small pieces to create together a bigger and more significant piece.

Although, each piece has been conceived to share a common goal and their impact on the viewer it is magnifier when unified, they also have been made to be sure that each piece can stand alone and individually produce a reaction in the observer.

Each location evokes a different arrangement, resulting each time in a unique installation with endless possibilities.

The installation pretends to awake spectator’s curiosity, moving from a first general group view to the individuality of each item, all with a touch of humour.

The pieces are abstract and loosely inspired by flowers, their seeds, fruits, buds and reproductive organs."

For this installation I have chosen to work with needle felting, because of its flexibility, and detail capacity.

The installation will be shown to the public for first time as part of the "Common Ground" exhibition.
It will be displayed from the 25th September to the 12th October in Farmleigh gallery, in Phoenix Park, my favourite craft gallery in Dublin. I will post more information soon.