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clarifyinf of the concept

  • when there is no performance, children come visited the site, they have fun, shout and curious to see these huge columns.

  • but they are not aware of the sense of pain is that it places
  • the artist imagined the concept of an inverted well by making it visible and audible.

  • these wells have an architectural role and staff also great and oppressive as the feelings of the people they welcome
  • Artist and acrchitect have wanted to create a neutral monument, where everyone can feel at ease and recreate his corner privacy.

  • but it is a question of atmosphere, aura and not a technical issue or planning.

-Taryn Simon (born February 4, 1975) is an artist who has worked in photography, text, sculpture and performance.

Her practice involves extensive research, guided by an interest in systems of categorization and classification.

Simon's works have been the subject of solo exhibitions.

She is a graduate of Brown University and a Guggenheim Fellow. She lives and works in New York.

  • the artist has made sure

not to make big gaps but rather small "box"

in order to connect people and share it pains

  • in each wells architects have recreated a sounding board where you can hear other people to mourn

  • During the day, when the structures are empty of performers, visiting children yell, whistle, and clap inside, oblivious to the sense of loss that the columns represent.

These colossal pillars are a beautiful embodiment of grief

We'll see an article written by Sam Lubell in 2016 on the architectural Taryn Simone and OMA architects work's, we're called "the 11 mourners"

interpretation and description of the 11 columns

Can a structure give shape to something as enigmatic as grief?

11 concrete colums, or inverted wells, contain spaces for mourners

the huge structures recall the scale of death-related monuments like tombes or pyramids

short ramps create a procession toward the entryways to each well

looking up the interior of column which is lit via a thin imbedded LED

  • Indeed it was creating a temporary memorial on the subject of the occupation of the loss in New York.

  • there are 30 Professional mourners who represent all the traditions of the world of grief and pain in a performance..

the view from inside a well

visitors enter the installation via stairs leading from an upper magazzine

To conclude

Finally I end with two quotes from each artist and the architect

“It’s quite difficult to pin down,” said Shigematsu. “In the end it’s all about intuition. You’re ultimately trying to feel the feeling of people feeling grief.”

“With the times we’re living in and this continuous broadcasting of tragedy, we have this impulse to go in and out of those losses,” says Simon. “The architecture reflects that kind of behavior.”

I chose these quotes because I found that they represented very well the whole article on this work

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