video installation + QRcode
Giacomo Verde
Biennal Italia-Cina 2012
Reggia Reale, Monza - 20/10 - 16/12
ITALIANO ENGLISH
Dark room. Two video projections in the opposite corners of a wall. Each projection is distorted effect "butterfly" . You see the same video: red and yellow on the left to the right. You see a digger at work. The image is mirrored and reversed at the center. The excavator looks like a monster and a predator. At irregular intervals is displayed:
NO BUTTERFLY ZONE
http://youtu.be/gvNWluD9jmU
Butterflies are also an "environmental indicator" and their disappearance reveals wrong use of the land by humanity. Butterflies wings also serve to defend. The drawings often represent their predators. The red and yellow colors indicate that they are edible.
At the center resting on the ground a card printed with a QR-code, a butterfly and the words :
BUTTERFLY ZONE
allows you to download through a smartphone, a booklet to make at home a "Garden for Butterflies" ...
DOWNLOAD
Gardening for Butterflies
Giardino per farfalle
Simplified version for one projector :
