Video: The rise and fall of the grain city, as a symbol of the mortality of the world created by human hands
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Usually cities have existed for centuries and even millennia. But a settlement created by a Swedish artist Johanna Martensson, lived only six months. However, this is not surprising, because it was not made of wood and stone, but from bread.
The Italian city of Matera has long been called "bread", and therefore it is quite natural that it was there that the Englishwoman Laura Hedland created a copy of the famous painting Gioconda of ten thousand rolls … But the work of the Swede Johanna Martensson, despite the similarity of the material, has a much smaller scale, but much larger in scope.
Martensson created from bread a whole city with several houses and even skyscrapers. True, this whole "huge" installation fits on one kitchen table.
After that, Johanna wondered what would happen if you leave such a bread job for a long time, without taking any effort to keep it. So she watched the disintegration process for six months, taking one photo of her "city" every day.
And now, thanks to these pictures, we can see how every day this grain city is becoming more and more gray and wilted, how mold appears and spreads on it, and over time, under the influence of external conditions, it turns into a mountain of dust, in which there is nothing does not indicate the former greatness of the object.
In this work, Johanna Maartensson wanted to show the life of real cities and great architectural structures of the past. Just a few years (and, in the case of the bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima, even several hours) may take history to wipe them off the face of the Earth.
Martensson also explains the emergence of the idea of creating grain work by the fact that she read an article that claims that the Earth needs only 500 years in order to completely get rid of the traces of many thousands of years of human activity and turn the once vibrant metropolises into a dense forest. It took the Swedish artist six months to do this.
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