MANGO BAJITO
INSTALATION
Contemporary Art Museum of Zulia. Maracaibo, Venezuela
2017
Project │ Incursiones
Team │ Josymar Rodríguez, María Valentina González, Oriana Coello
Allies │ Plataforma para la Comunicación de Arquitectura IAC, Museo del Arte Contemporáneo del Zulia
Team │ Josymar Rodríguez, María Valentina González, Oriana Coello
Allies │ Plataforma para la Comunicación de Arquitectura IAC, Museo del Arte Contemporáneo del Zulia
Mango Bajito was an interactive installation for
IAC 2017, an international architecture conference and festival.
Maracaibo is a hot and dry city, where urban
vegetation needs constant irrigation. The garden was an invitation to interact
not only with plants but with others and sharing the responsibility of keeping
something alive through common effort. In order to lower a plant for watering,
at least two people had to work together.
For the closing party of the festival two beers
were attached to each hanging plant and participants and assistants met around
the task of lowering and drinking them. The Venezuelan expression “Mango
bajito” refers to an opportunity at hand, something too good to miss.
