"Progress and Development" (2012)

The intervention consisted of 3 picnics that was setup around the festival of Pepe Verde. Blankets indicated the spots and people were invited to sit down on the blankets and eat the food. The picnic- this romantic idea of eating together, a social gathering in nature- was used in 19th century English novels as a literary space for romantic gestures, revealing social inadequacies and personal evelations (Emma by Jane Austen comes to mind). The picnic then could also serve for the perfect space to reveal our own desires and inadequacies. In the absence of nature the action of a picnic remains the same, everyone can bring something, to sit down outside, with the the basket, the blanket and the food, yet it might almost seem sad. Though at the same time plotting down a space in the city, sitting down on the sidewalk on the cement becomes a defiant action against the movement,the progress that the capitalist city promotes.