Isla de Plantas- edición Cuba is an artistic intervention by Sylvia Furegatti, based on her poetic and conceptual research into the relationship between art, landscape and nature.
The project was selected to be part of the Brazilian representation at the 15th Havana Biennial 2024-2025. Since its first edition in Brazil in 2015, one of its concerns has been the temporary and collective construction of contemporary works of art in spaces of flow and connection with nature.
15 BIENAL
DE LA HABANA
Horizontes compartidos
2024-25
Proyecto Domos.
La imagen arde.
Instituto Superior de Arte
Facultad de Artes Visuales
Calle 120 #904 entre 9na y 23. Playa. La Habana. Cuba
Like a garden installed on top of another, it carries images of plants inscribed on the surface of others. Each edition is projected as a site-specific large-scale public sculpture made from popular masonry. Isla de Plantas thus occupies garden and public spaces, aiming to establish other ways of interaction and collective coexistence.
In Havana, the Biennale curators recommended that the piece be built on the grass areas of the Instituto Superior de Arte—ISA Cuba. In this special place, with a landscape recognised for its internationally renowned architecture, we have a university space dedicated to art, thus creating an audience that is very aware of the interaction proposed by the sculpture.
Since its installation in November 2024, the work has been transformed by the multiple uses of its user-viewers and the growth of the plants that inhabit and shape it over time.
Technical design / elevation: Vitória Esteves
Photo by Karenia Cintra Rodriguez
Photo by Yosvanir Rodriguez
Acknowledgments / support
