martin bonadeo | exhibitions

From its flowerpot in the middle of a tunnel, a plant will test the efficiency of a precarious analogical device designed to connect it with the outside. This site specific installation was developed for a pedestrian tunnel with four access stairs, two in each of its ends. The idea consists on locating 2 big mirrors in the base of each of these stairs in a way that they reflect the sky's light into the tunnel. A plant in a flowerpot is located in the center of this 50 m x 4 m corridor. Over the flowerpot, a device with lenses projects on four 20 x 25 cm screens. The 4 "real time" sky images are focused above the plant, so it'll have many different underground sky points of view.

The installation started in the solstice, when the sun was far from the south hemisphere. As time goes by, the sun is more and more perpendicular to the land. One day, it'll get to the tunnel entrance, bouncing its light in the mirrors and getting to the plant. At night, each of these mirrors reflects the light of a public illumination post (and even the moon) also taking light to the plant.

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