AMALIA PICA
PETRIFIED GARDEN

PRIMARY SCHOOL UTRECHT, UTRECHT, HOLLAND
PERMANENT INSTALLATION SINCE 2009

During workshops, children were asked to fantasize about plants, about what they would look like in the past or in the future, and to make drawings or spatial impressions. Based on these stories and images, sculptures was designed for the petrified garden: ”solidified plants”. The garden is intended as a meeting place, but it also aims to be a breeding ground for new stories and cultural activities. Writer Maria Barnas wrote stories about the origins of the garden. They are bundled in a booklet accompanying the project.
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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...
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