Dedalo
Lessac, France
Installation for Domaine de Boisbuchet, 2024
Artistic residency winner
Dedalo is a lightweight octagonal steel structure used to move from one field to another in search of the birds, their lives, their stops, and their passages. It combines stairs and platform, where the object’s geometry facilitates displacement despite its weight, height and scale. The ephemerality of the structure permits the artefact in specific scenarios to disappear and be dominated by the surroundings. Only temporarily resting on the ground, Daedalus is an architecture in motion, with the same texture as the threads in which birds rest, a place to observe and be observed by humans and nonhumans alike.
The project wants to reflect on the temporary evidence of migrations, flows, and mobile networks deeply characterised by the territory. The sky is drawn by endless trajectories and patterns all year round. Migratory birds traverse along invisible paths through these landscapes. More sedentary birds intertwine their lives with these seasonal travellers. The upside-down landscape, where the land is at the lower limit of the sky, requires different tools and artefacts for exploration. Therefore, the study combined scientific analysis with intuitive inquiry and offered a detailed survey of the present bird species in various mediums, maps of the territory, and a prototype named Dedalo, an artefact for landscape exploration.
Dedalo
Lessac, France
Installation for Domaine de Boisbuchet, 2024
Artistic residency winner
The project wants to reflect on the temporary evidence of migrations, flows, and mobile networks deeply characterised by the territory. The sky is drawn by endless trajectories and patterns all year round. Migratory birds traverse along invisible paths through these landscapes. More sedentary birds intertwine their lives with these seasonal travellers. The upside-down landscape, where the land is at the lower limit of the sky, requires different tools and artefacts for exploration. Therefore, the study combined scientific analysis with intuitive inquiry and offered a detailed survey of the present bird species in various mediums, maps of the territory, and a prototype named Dedalo, an artefact for landscape exploration.
Dedalo is a lightweight octagonal steel structure used to move from one field to another in search of the birds, their lives, their stops, and their passages. It combines stairs and platform, where the object’s geometry facilitates displacement despite its weight, height and scale. The ephemerality of the structure permits the artefact in specific scenarios to disappear and be dominated by the surroundings. Only temporarily resting on the ground, Daedalus is an architecture in motion, with the same texture as the threads in which birds rest, a place to observe and be observed by humans and nonhumans alike.
