Type:
Landscape
Location:
Chaumont sur Loire, France
Year:
2021
Client:
Chaumont sur Loire Festival
Cost:
15.000 euro
Surface:
150 m2
Phase:
Competition
Team:
SDARCH Trivelli&Associati
Alessandro Trivelli
Silvia Calatroni
collaboratori
Maria Bonazzi
As in all dreams, the details of the images that we remember are evanescent and there are few that we remember, in the garden of dreams we meet people we do not know and who move without a precise destination, cross space, move away, and come towards us.
Here one floats, swims, flies, and reflects on the horizon, there is not only the simple nature of a field with a few flowers but small stems that reflect the faces of those who cross them, an infinite horizon. A fantastic, surreal space, in a real garden, a "Hortus conclusus" of the dream.
The main garden space is closed by a curtain so that the view from outside is prohibited and only those who enter the garden, in the dream, who cross the threshold of the garden, can pass from the real world to that of the dream in which the protagonist is the space in which a garden to be crossed is dotted with perennials and small colorful flowers. The space is defined by an elliptical shape, with a light structure that carries a reflective fabric, in the center, there is only the garden, there are no structures, only the plants. The elliptical shape creates two spaces (garden 2 and 3) which are a pause, with a seat, a trunk, like a dream pause, an uncertain awakening, a point from which one can see the images of the dream that we have just lived (the garden). A transition between light and dark. In these spaces, an unreal fuchsia light and a sound production system that detects the electrical variations of the plants (Plant Music) connected to their leaves will also allow interaction with the plants that will register the presence of people, touch and movement, modify the characteristics of the sound emitted.
People and vegetation are part of the landscape, but as in a dream we do not remember them perfectly, they are moving actors of our memory, dreamlike spaces that we can only discover in an immaterial reality. An ideal garden is a metaphysical place, it belongs to the sum of landscape images that we record in which magnificent plants and small flowers appear and disappear; crossing this small garden we will have the opportunity to discover it.