In 1962, prompted by a friend about the deadly effects that the indiscriminate use of pesticides had caused in a bird sanctuary, Rachel Carlson began to investigate the matter and to write what would become one of the most influential books of the Twentieth Century, Silent Spring. The book soon became a publishing success and provided the basis for a whole series of groundbreaking movements and environmental legislation. In it, the danger of a spring without birds, without insects, made the author turn public the adverse effects of human activities on the environment.
Inspired by this alert, by this silent world and the worst environmental disasters caused by man, Trip to a wrinkled plain takes the viewer-visitor to a kind of world recreated by their feet on a carpet-map, portal and place of access to the great dilemma of thinking as part of a common scene at a time when man has a impact of geological force on the planet.
Trip to a wrinkled plain is the second chapter of the trilogy Gentleness of a giant. The project adopts a common practice for architects and engineers: the creation of landscapes in miniature on a surface. Utilizing the same strategy, the bodies of a man and a woman move and are at the same time figure and active background, giant bodies that mirror themselves in what they build. As temporary owners of a territory, they manipulate materials that give rise to mountains, oceans, rivers, plains in a panorama of the dangers of the accident.
Divided into 3 separate episodes, each one with a different couple and surface, the project adopts each time a specific format: a gallery (Montevideo), a theatre space (Lisbon), a movie theater (Rio de Janeiro). Gentleness of a giant | Travel to a wrinkled plain, the Uruguayan episode, is the result of the residence of the Brazilian choreographer Gustavo Ciriaco in Montevideo in collaboration with dancer Natalia Viroga, light designer Santiago Tricot and visual artist Juan Pablo Campistrous.
