The seeds were planted by hand

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.