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Lucy + Jorge Orta (Great Britain, 1966 / Argentine, 1957) |
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Founded on a political conception of art, Lucy + Jorge Orta’s research adopts alternative strategies to condemn, raise awareness and take action in the attempt to promote and set in motion new cognitive and relational processes. The artists’ works range from installations to videos and performances and remind us that imagination, the ability to focus on alternative images of the future, is the first tool required for the creation of new models of development and cohabitation. |
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Among the themes tackled by the artists in the past few years, great prominence has been given to the problem of the impoverishment of water resources – caused by global warming and the pollution of natural reservoirs – and the risk that certain populations of the world will lack the right to access sources of drinking water. These problems are probed by the Orta Water cycle, which includes the work Orta Water – Mobile intervention unit exhibited in Green Platform. The work takes the form of a rudimental emergency means for the supply, transport and distribution of drinking water. Along with its purely symbolic value, the work reveals a complex array of meaningful elements aimed at raising awareness of a global problem. Our choices, our concept of progress and collaboration between different people, all play a fundamental role in the solution to this problem.
The most recent works of Lucy + Jorge Orta include the Antarctica series that recounts the project of the two artists to found – with the help of the local scientific community – a temporary village in one of the most hostile places on Earth, which has now become the focus of interest of many countries because it is home to the largest reserves of fresh water in the world. Located in an area that is not subject to national jurisdiction and fully protected as an environmental and scientific reserve by an international convention, the Antarctic Village is presented as a model of alternative development, not available for exploitation by man or privatisation, that hopes to inspire future policies.
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OrtaWater – Mobile intervention unit, 2005
Mexican transport tricycle, metal structure, 5 sinks, glass, plastic tube, life jacket,
2 glass jugs, 2 jerricans
220 x 200 x 100 cm
Courtesy Galleria Continua, San Gimignano / Beijing / Le Moulin.
Photo Credit: CCCS, Firenze; Valentina Muscedra |
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OrtaWater – Exodus, 2007
wood, diverse textiles, steel, laminatedLamda photograph, 2 Royal Limoges porcelain hearts, 2 liferings,
2 oars, 2 water flasks, 6 OrtaWater bottles, glass
150 x 150 x 60 cm
Courtesy Galleria Continua, San Gimignano / Beijing / Le Moulin.
Photo Credit: CCCS, Firenze; Valentina Muscedra |
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OrtaWater – Exodus, 2007
wood, diverse textiles, steel, laminated Lamda photograph, 3 Royal Limoges porcelain hearts, 2 liferings , 2 oars, 3 water flasks, 8 OrtaWater bottles, glass
150 x 150 x 60 cm
Courtesy Galleria Continua, San Gimignano / Beijing / Le Moulin
Photo credit: Ela Bialkowska |
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