Installation · 2015 · Travelling
Mirar más allá de lo que vemos
Creation, direction and curation
El bosque
An installation that recreates a forest, painted with Indian ink on treated translucent paper. The different layers create the impression of the bark of a tree and let the light through. It can occupy up to 200 m².
Being translucent, the trees reveal the silhouettes of the people passing between them, reflected in them. This vision lets us see beyond and become aware that we are one: if we harm nature we harm ourselves, and if she dies, so do we. That is why we have to protect her and take care of her.
The forest has fifty trees in all and can be divided into groups of nine, thirteen or fifteen depending on the exhibition space. It fits in a small suitcase and travels with the artist, to be planted in other places. “Every time it acquires a new meaning, according to what inspires me in the space, and every time it is a challenge for me as an artist to use my creativity and my training as an architect to create a different environment,” says Rinat.
It opened at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Seville, which sponsored the production as part of the Proyecto Atalaya. It was then shown in Cádiz at TEDxCádizUniversity, travelled to Israel as part of her solo exhibition «Rooted in Space» at The Artists’ House in Tel Aviv, and in 2016 received an Honourable Mention at the Premios Cortes de Cádiz. It has been part of ARTSevilla 360°, was planted in an abandoned old cinema in Campos (Mallorca) for ArtNit 2017, and that same year reached Barcelona, where a red piano was placed among the trees for anyone who could play it.
Fifty trees
Indian ink on translucent paper
The paper lets through
Light passes through it
And what you see on the other side is not the tree: it is whoever is behind it.
The opening event
Mirar más allá
This is also where the video piece «Visible / Invisible» from «Seres Invisibles» came from: the body, the red fabric and the trace of someone no longer there.
Travelling exhibition
The forest fits in a suitcase
It is folded, packed into a small suitcase and planted again somewhere else, which is never the same place.
Credits
- Creation, direction and curation
- Rinat Izhak
- Technique
- Indian ink on treated translucent paper Fifty trees Up to 200 m²
- Production
- Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla Proyecto Atalaya
- Venues
- Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville TEDxCádizUniversity, Cádiz The Artists’ House, Tel Aviv — «Rooted in Space» ARTSevilla 360°, Universidad Loyola Andalucía ArtNit Campos, Mallorca (2017) Pedralbes Centre, Barcelona (2017)
- Awards
- Honourable Mention, Premios Cortes de Cádiz (2016)
- Photography
- Adam Newby