- Date 2024
- City Lausanne
- Country Switzerland
- Photograph Piercarlo Quecchia DSL Studio
At the end of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Puck breaks the fourth wall to remind the audience that what it has just seen is but a piece of fiction. The installation that this year has won the International FAD Award breaks the floor of a parking facility to show that the landscape, immutable to our eyes, is but a construct evolving over time. What today is asphalt was once farmland, and even a lakebed long before, and it is this latent reality that some circular furrows made on the hard ground seek to express, in the process letting flora grow on them with the help of a structure rising at the center: a sprinkler serving also as a lampost and as a bird-attractor that generates an entire new ecosystem, and reconnects urban life to an environment that is far from being an illusion... [+]