09 Feb In Between

A local style blue colored scrap-folding took shape by the Italian Artist Davide Tagliabue and the Local people during the 9th Episode of Uronto Residential Art Exchange Program.

The intervention concerns the creation of a bamboo bridge structure, with an appearance similar to the temporary scaffolding used in traditional Bengali construction sites, painted blue and which connects the Court room (Adalot/kachari), the only building where subjects could make their voices heard by bringing their requests to the king, to the central building, housing the king’s son. This escamotage (trick), in addition to ideally indicating that there is no longer a distinction between public and private through this transition from a semi-public space in the past to a totally sacred and private one, wants to draw “material” attention to the building, rekindling the curiosity of the inhabitants about its possible use and its future.

Why those scaffolding? What are they doing at the Palace? Will it become something again? The hypothesis that will be created in their minds is a gift to the community, a magnifying glass turned again on something that the force of habit has transformed into an abandoned place in the imagination of those who live in close contact with it, so that the palace becomes the place of the possible, of the suggestion towards growth that pushes itself from the ephemeral and tends to the eternal, of the realization of new enterprises together with the community.

The intervention was completed with the help of local, paid workers and the help of the community, in order to introduce new capital into the local economy of the village and to empower those who took part in it to ensure future care. The biggest unexpected result was learning that the carpenter who followed the work was called the “Bridge Minister” by the community afterwards.

Davide Tagliabue is a passionate architect form Italy. e has a strong interest in design and in the use of wood in its various forms that led him in the field of arts & crafts.