Lost Futures

Stainless steel sculptures and a pavement, 2020-2026
Approx 200 x 200 x 400cm

Curated by Carolina Grau
for Paris Art Fair, Grand Palais, Paris, France

Not exhibited due the pandemic!

Artwork:

Lost Futures, 2020

“A site-specific installation presented by Portuguese artist Marisa Ferreira, Lost Future (2020) takes its 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 neighbourhood as a way of solving issues of dilapidated and unhealthy housing, illness and overpopulation – thereby giving place to what Le Corbusier called the “city of tomorrow”, a symbol of European modernity and of the industrial era. 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. ”

in https://www.artsandcollections.com/the-22nd-art-paris-exhibition-celebrates-the-new-french-scene/ by Chris Jenkis, 2020.




Lost Futures, 2020
Photography by Marisa Ferreira/ BONO, 2020