Invisible Spaces – Pop Up Lisboa 2010
Pop Up Lisboa 2010 is dedicated to the theme Urban Nomads, from November 4th to December 11th this urban culture event will inhabit various Lisbon city spaces with artistic interventions from more than a hundred Portuguese and worldwide creators. Invisible Spaces was one of the 10 selected projects among 111 projects to happen on the 2010 edition.
The installation played with an autobiographic trajectory of immigration. A map was traced, connecting my first house in Lisbon, and passing through all the houses I have lived in until the point of reaching Lisbon again in 2010. The personal trajectory has being projected on the space, using string to connect the points on the map. The game suggests the installation as a metaphor, where every time you walk a trajectory, you change the space and the space is changed by your movement; so in every new trajectory, or, for every new string placed in the room, you need to deal with the net that is already built on the space. The body is not free anymore and responds to the frontiers created by the previous movements.
Inside the installation, there were fragments of other people’s trajectories as well. These were photo essays, house lists and consumption maps of people I have met during the 7 years documented on the installation.
