Interview with curator Carolina Grau about ArtParis by
Widewalls maganize, 19/02/2020
https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/art-paris-2020-guest-curators-interview
Curated by Carolina Grau
Artwork featured: Lost Future
https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/art-paris-2020-guest-curators-interview
Curated by Carolina Grau
Artwork featured: Lost Future
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What Will These Two Guest Curators Bring to Art Paris 2021? “
The new site-specific project by Marisa Ferreira (born 1983) titled Lost Future (2020) takes inspiration from Le Corbusier’s Plan Voisin (1925) – an urban development project for Paris comprised of 18 cruciform glass skyscrapers placed on an orthogonal grid of streets interspersed with green spaces.
The plan, which was never implemented, envisioned demolishing the Marais neighborhood as a way of solving issues of unhealthy housing and overpopulation. Le Corbusier called it the “city of tomorrow,” a symbol of European modernity.
Directly referencing this emblematic project, the cross-shaped column imagined by Marisa Ferreira evokes the gap between the utopian ambitions of the 1970s and the current property boom that pays no heed to the history and identity of cities such as Porto and Lisbon.
The new site-specific project by Marisa Ferreira (born 1983) titled Lost Future (2020) takes inspiration from Le Corbusier’s Plan Voisin (1925) – an urban development project for Paris comprised of 18 cruciform glass skyscrapers placed on an orthogonal grid of streets interspersed with green spaces.
The plan, which was never implemented, envisioned demolishing the Marais neighborhood as a way of solving issues of unhealthy housing and overpopulation. Le Corbusier called it the “city of tomorrow,” a symbol of European modernity.
Directly referencing this emblematic project, the cross-shaped column imagined by Marisa Ferreira evokes the gap between the utopian ambitions of the 1970s and the current property boom that pays no heed to the history and identity of cities such as Porto and Lisbon.
