TABLEAU | Time to move on
It is time to be optimistic, to draw strength from weakness and to look ahead. Only by leaning on each other and sharing the weight will we be able to pick up momentum and get going. As if inspired – without knowing it – by the spirit of the Cordovan artist Pepe Espaliú and his carrying, the Danish collective TABLEAU has reinvented this Cordovan courtyard with a mobile installation that paradoxically, by dint of movement, makes us stop and think. To think positively. The first kinetic art proposal of the FLORA Festival is an explosion of colour and simplicity.
TABLEAU, led by the florist Julius Værnes Iversen, represent the avant-garde of current floral art. Their style, of industrial inspiration and metallic sheen, plays at showing the guts of the installation, an intention quite the opposite of the trompe l’oeil of Patio Barroco in Cordoba Provincial Council. There is no catch in TABLEAU: all the cards are shown here.
About the installation:
For this years FLORA contest, TABLEAU will create an installation called “Time to move on”. The installation invites its audience to reflect on the past and together move on from the very unusual time we’ve gone through the last 1,5 year.
The installation is inspired by the pandemic, but especially an attempt to remind people and our selves that it is now time put it behind us. Therefore TABLEAU wanted to create something which could illustrate weight, movement, strength, and happiness. We wanted to inspire people to think about what they’ve learned during the past year(s) while being optimistic and looking forward into a brighter future.
For the installation a scaffolding will be built, surrounding the fontaine all the way around. From this scaffolding a pendulum will be placed in a rotation machine which will spin around in a slow, steady pace, any time during day and night. The movement of the pendulum is created by a rotating machine but also by the strength of each entities hanging in each side of the pendulum.
In this way, you could say the pendulum creates time – an aspect TABLEAU wanted to use. A pendulum is all about weight, strength, time and movement. We as humans needs to be uplifted (weight), be supported by and carry each other as a pendulum (strength). While we remember the past, we also need to be looking into the future (time) and move forward (movement). A lot of flowers will be seen crawling around, creating a timeline, optimism and happiness.
