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JR: Chronicles exhibition synopsis
Agnes Denes - Wheatfield (1982)
- site: a landfill in lower Manhattan, two blocks from Wall Street and the World Trade Center, facing the Statue of Liberty
- site’s existing narrative and context: Manhattan is the richest, most professional, most congested, highly real-estate valued island in the world.
- how it changes the site:
- visual - brings nature, a new set of values, into a concrete jungle
- smell - the city didn’t smell good, it’s so oily and stinks, but the wheatfield brings fresh smell to new york
- touch - walk on soil field, vs city asphalt road
JR: Chronicles exhibition synopsis
- site: public areas in a city
- site’s existing context: shared public space, part of every residents life, almost become an invisible background of everyone’s life
- how he changes the site:
- taking individual portraits, reproducing them at a monumental scale in a public space
- almost gives characteristic and personality to the public space, making public space into a living creature
made this abandoned building alive again and it feels vibrant with personality