AMALIA PICA
SEMAPHORES

KING'S CROSS, LONDON, UK
PERMANENT INSTALLATION SINCE 2019

Interactive sculptures using the semaphore code system, part of the King’s Cross Project.

Semaphore is a code that was used in early telegraphy to send text-based messages across long distances in visual form. The public can use the Chappe Telegraph pictured here to send messages to the other side of Granay Square.

FEATURED ARTIST

AMALIA PICA

Amalia Pica (b. 1978 in Neuquén Capital, Argentina) lives and works in London, UK. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes P.P. in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2003 and attended graduate school at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in 2005. 

Amalia Pica’s works deal in particular with the complex mechanisms of communication and social interaction, as well as with social systems – themes shaped by her experience of the Argentine military dictatorship in which she grew up. She works in a variety of media, including sculpture, installation, photography, drawing, and perf...