The seeds were planted by hand

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public art, city, gentrification, urban intervention

Abstract

This text proposes an exercise in reflection on the reconfigurations of meaning and intervention potential that an iconic work of public art (Wheatfield - A confrontation, Agnes Denes, 1982), realized three decades ago, acquires when 'reactivated' at present by initiative Of the leaders of a powerful process of gentrification. A reflection on its instrumentalization according to the interests of each of the sponsors, but also on the urban facts that are revealed through what has been lost in it.

Author Biography

Marta Traquino, FBAUL

artista e investigadora, centros de investigação: CEC-FLUL and CIEBA-FBAUL.

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2017-06-30

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