Meeting Points 7 – Ten Thousand Wiles and a Hundred Thousand Tricks
(c)Courtesy of Mendes Wood, São Paulo and Nils Stærk, Copenhagen
More Delicate Than the Historian's Are the Map Maker's Colours, 2012-2013
Installation
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HD video, 2 egg trays and wooden shelf
The installation More Delicate Than the Historian’s Are the Map Maker’s Colours focuses on the Christopher Columbus monument in Seville, nicknamed ‘The Egg of Columbus’, referring to Columbus’s retort to his doubters that discovering the Americas was as difficult as making an egg stand on its tip. Lagomarsino illegally imported eggs from Argentina, which he and his father then threw at the monument in an act of poetic retribution. Employing themes of travel and transport, the work comments on the received historical narrative and its continuing influence.