Natalia Calderon



This investigation begins with the idea that people show themselves not only in the private spaces -indoors-, but also in the streets –outdoors-. By showing themselves on their every day activities, people leave a trace or mark the city in a personal way. Their acts can be seen through personal objects with which they live closely.  We mark objects or spaces in the action of making them ours. Belonging is imprinting ourselves in space. Belonging is a two ways concept, at the time you imprint yourself, your folds or tissues, over outside space, this space marks you as well. You belong to the public space at the same time that this space or objects belong to you.

I am interested in these objects that can talk about or show the personal and everyday coexistence between them and the people that use them. I am also interested in how do these objects can be exposed in the public space (city, outdoors, streets, urban landscape).

I am questioning myself about how cities are modified by their inhabitants’ costumes or private lives? Is there a relationship between what people usually do in their intimate life with how cities are altered? I am trying to highlight the presence of the people in the city by pointing out the marks they leave on it.

Spaces cannot hide what has happen over them. Every pathway, every action leaves a mark, a scar. Order tries to hide these documents, city’s memories. Order tries to maintain always the same place; tries to prevent unsuspected confrontations. But the public space and the public sphere are alive. They change, have memory, and show it.

Asking new questions is what generates knowledge interconnections between different fields. In this sense is that we must change our perspective of the public sphere, so that we can learn from it. Art questions us about the already established issues, promoting different and thus creative viewpoints. Art sphere articulates different perspectives of the world.

 

Natalia Calderon, 2009

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