Video: Home Was Here: American Venice After The Flood
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
As you name the yacht, so it will float. Battered truth. But this does not make her less faithful. Take, for example, the small American town of Venice. It was from his flood-destroyed houses that artist Mike Bouchet created the Watershed series of installations presented at the 2009 Venice Biennale.
It is not clear what the authorities of the American town of Venice hoped for when they created a dam around it. Indeed, with such a name, it is quite clear that this dam will not withstand a serious pressure of water. And so it happened at the first flood - the waters washed away the protective structures, the water rushed into the city, and dozens of houses in it became uninhabitable.
Now what to do with all this pile of rubbish? Give back to artist Mike Boucher. He'd think of something. For example, an installation presented at the Biennale in Venice, Italy, not American. What an irony of fate!
This installation is a pile of building debris, composed so as to resemble the outlines of houses. Each of these piles is crowned with a roof ridge. Each of these piles is made from the remains of a house in the American town of Venice. So this city continues to live. Albeit in the form of an art project.
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