Caracas Minimalista, Public space intervention, 400 x 500 cm, 2008
This video was made at Alameda Avenue and Av India, in Caracas, Venezuela. This small intervention was executed in one of the earliest new neighborhoods of 20th century Caracas. Originally consisting of single-family homes and currently immersed in tall residential buildings, its urban infrastructure remains virtually unaltered since its inception. One of the most visible consequences of that fact, is the collapse and cracking of its streets. The intervention consisted of covering one of those big holes with a square of dried leaves, the masking only reveals a small part of the crack, everything else is covered. I used the shape of an ignorant and irrelevant minimalistic square as an attempt to hide and epidermic symptom of the malaise of modern cities.
