crosswalk

Exhibition. La Recova Art Centre, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 2013

In the Crosswalk series for the 40 Años después (‘40 years on’) collective exhibition showing at the La Recova Art Centre, we direct our gaze at places that might appear somehow deficient at first sight, but which allow us to observe interactions between citizens and the public space.

The exhibition engages with a selection of such places, employing the image of the crosswalk as an element of both civil disobedience and creativity, as the mouth of the Tahodio gorge, where local residents use a residual place and set up a beach, bingo stand and all.

I was surprised by just how naturally everyday life proved capable of sidestepping all rules; people simply tend to adapt public space to their needs, occupying it and making it their own. We see that citizen action has a huge transformative effect on public space. Effectively, without people, there can be no public space.

Project: Constanze Sixt with Rafael Escobedo de la Riva