Project proposal for the Installation category of the Gibraltar Spring Festival Art Exhibition 2017

Exhibited at the Gustavo Bacarisas gallery, Gibraltar, Museo Cruz Herrera, La Linea and Palacio de Diputacion de Cadiz, Spain.

Project title: Brexit: Cube of fears, dreams and hopes

Project information:

The wooden cuboid structure will be approximately 2m squared hollow and people will be able to go inside the structure to deposit written pieces of paper into the hanging glass bottles or jars. The idea is to have a structure that is organic and grows from within when people interact, collaborate and deposit their written messages in the structure, more bottles will be added during the length of the exhibition.

With the current political uncertainty that Gibraltar is going through due to the Brexit, the installation can be some kind of therapeutic community art installation where Gibraltarians and Spaniards can anonymously deposit their fears, dreams and hopes inside the bottles, like when people put messages in bottles and throw them in the sea and they hope someone somewhere else in another part of the world will help them to overcome their problems.

Lights will be added in between the hanging bottles with the messages and the whole installation can reflect shadow into the room creating an environment with an ambiance that encloses the cuboid structure.

I can also have sound coming from the moving bottles if I have a fan which provides wind for the glass to move, as if the structure is alive and growing.

The collected information from both Gibraltar and Spain will be made into a film which will be projected beside the cube