Em Construção
Site-specific installation
Campus DST, Braga (PT)
Site-specific installation by Fernanda Fragateiro
Fernanda Fragateiro presents “Em Construção”. Installed in the garden of DST’s headquarters in Braga, this in situ work incorporates the concrete structure of a bridge that was never built.
Emerging from this ruin, the sculpture enters into dialogue with the surrounding landscape, expanding with 31 metal beams, 15 red-pigmented concrete panels, and 3 polished stainless steel elements.
“I’m very interested in processes of construction, deconstruction, and ruin — with the idea of something that, in a way, is falling apart, but is fixed,” the artist notes.
The sculpture, in its permanent and fixed state, acts as an anchor in the forest area of Campus DST. Around it, the terrain is shaped, a meadow is planted and a subtle amphitheatre is installed as a place to linger and contemplate. In contrast to the permanence of the sculpture, the surrounding space is all impermanence and change, open to being contaminated by the passage of time and by use.
Location
Campus DST
Braga (PT)
Read more about Fernanda Fragateiro.