Angers France Tramway, On-site intervention

On-Site Intervention.

The intervention I produced in Angers, France, was a process that involved a formal reflection on public space and its social relationship with passersby, based on the construction of the tram in that French city where I worked for a while.

I focused on photographing the reconstruction and the change in the physical landscape, and that's where I became interested in the materials used on the streets, creating a working line where the tram would have run in 2010. Following this route, I focused on protecting the trees and contrasting the foundations.

Later I used the characteristic material throughout the city, a deep orange plastic tube, first, with a drawing and then said material I put together an ephemeral sculpture where I formally experienced its sculptural and transformative qualities, together with wooden trunks integrated into the piece. I gave it a mixed, interpretive meaning. I emerged with the piece, which, among its characteristics, is able to be assembled in situ. I worked in the squares where I was interested in working, given the context of the city in general.

Finally, the piece is a photographic record complemented by photomontage in two of the three pieces, influenced by the certainty of the moment.

By EMILIO JIMONE, February 2007.