Legacy In the Grass 2
Legacy in the Grass 2
Found objects, soil, live grass
World Trade Center of Montreal
February 23- March 2st 2009
Presented as part of Art Souterrain of Montreal’s Nuit Blanche
Artist Description:
Past civilizations are understood today through the artifacts, which they leave behind and are preserved within the ground. As our society pushes forth, we too leave in our wake a telling graveyard of cultural byproducts, and as Priscila Uppals states in her poem Misplaced Anger “we’ll be lucky/ if anyone remembers us/ as well as the earth/ remembers our garbage”. In Legacy in the Grass a few of these discarded symbols of our society are displayed in a state of suspension, between now and then, past, present and future.
Les civilisations passées sont comprises et retracées aujourd’hui avec l’aide des artéfacts qui sont laissés et préservés dans le sol. Nos sociétés contemporaines laissent aussi derrière des éléments culturels spécifiques et propre et notre époque, comme le mentionne Priscila Uppals dans son poème Misplaced Anger “we’ll be lucky/ if anyone remembers us/ as well as the earth/ remembers our garbage”. Dans Legacy in the Grass on retrouve quelques uns de ces objets laissés pour compte par le temps, en état de suspension entre le futur, le présent et le passé.