Light Sculpture Installation
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts
UROS ISLAND | Taichung, Taiwan 2011 – 2012
Future Pass is a production of the
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in Taichung, the
UNEEC Culture and Education Foundation in Taipei, and the
Today Art Museum in Beijing. It was achieved in cooperation with the
Fondazione Claudio Buziol. Curator Victoria Lu (Creative Director, Today Art Museum, Beijing) is responsible for the exhibition’s content.
Media: LEDs, diffusion material, vinyl, custom lighting sequence, electrical hardware.
Dimensions: 13 ft 7 in x 11 ft 2 in x 26 in
When Amorós was a child living on the coast of Peru, she always loved the beauty of the ocean; everything from the tides to the colors, to the bubbles and the foam.
Uros Island is inspired by the islands in Lake Titicaca, located southeast of Peru. They are floating islets made entirely out of totora reeds. The pre-Incan Uros, who live on these forty-two self-fashioned floating islands, build everything out of this material – from houses to boats to watch towers.
From these two ideas, she created Uros Island to reflect the natural elegance of sea foam and totora reeds. The sculpture will seemingly arise from the ground as if it were one with the earth.
La Isla de los Uros se inspiró en las islas de los Uros del Lago Titicaca, ubicado al sureste del Perú. Se trata de islotes flotantes hechos totalmente de cañas de totora, una subespecie de carrizo de junco gigante. Los Uros, civilización pre inca que hasta hoy vive en cuarenta y dos islas flotantes auto formadas en el Lago Titicaca, construyen todo con este material – desde casas hasta botes y miradores. Amorós creó la Isla de los Uros para reflejar la elegancia natural de la espuma del mar y de las cañas de totora. Mantendrá la técnica tradicional y la forma de estas islas. La escultura parecerá surgir del suelo como sí fuera parte de la tierra.