In the past, we couldn’t have imagined the disappearance of people and the dissolution of a country. The consequences of climate change and capitalist political strategies is changing the way we can live. Can we imagine that after human disappearance, public art could be the remaining standing structures in our different landscapes? 

In Montreal, on the glades of the Mont-Royal mountain, a collection of sculptures produced in 1964 for the first sculpture biennial in the americas is asleep and forgotten. In Santiago, neighbours take care of The Panul, the last native forest in the city. I would like to thread public sculptures with the space of the mountain as a symbol of strength and contradiction, and revisit the notion of public art as a utopian idea and form of art made for everyone. The designed space of the Mont-Royal versus the natural space of the Panul put different contexts, stories and reactions into perspective. Can public art really be for everyone? How can we archive memory and keep stories alive when everything is forgotten?

The project will consist of initiatives indoors and outdoors, including a publication of posters (24 x 36) of the sculptures on the Mont-Royal mountain in Montreal in a winter setting, a series of posters/journal (36x42) by Antonia Taulis, and a video/installation by Patricia Dominguez. If the possibility arises, we would like to invite Lucy Lippard to exchange on her reflections of public art in Chile in the 70s and its current state.