Intervention proposed for the "Tangent Sites 2008" Project Competition for Public Artistic Interventions.

June / 2.008

 

The "Garden of the Republic", an epithet given to our province by Domingo F. Sarmiento, as a tribute to its lush vegetation of great beauty and diversity. Tucumán is part of this imaginary garden that has been and continues to be symbolically recognized. But today, more than ever, the symbolic aspect of Tucumán as the Garden of the Republic is being destroyed.

 

If we understand the garden as a fertile ground where plants are grown in general, we can think that Tucumán does not respond to this epithet. This is due to the excessive urban concentration, a response to an irrational development in which increasing population density creates a chaotic habitat that has both physical and psychological consequences for its inhabitants.

 

The proposal was to intervene ephemerally in public spaces to make this problem visible and to generate the reflection of the inhabitants.

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Replacing those spaces where "cement patches" border useless natural grass patches.