The Carriage intervention provokes a questioning about the mobility problems in large urban centers.
Formed by a replica of an imperial carriage and four horses sculpted in real scale, the intervention was installed over 30 meters high on the Octávio Frias de Oliveira bridge mast, on the Pinheiros waterfront in São Paulo.
The work compared the average speed of a car in São Paulo's rush hour traffic to the speed of a carriage in the times of the Empire. Both move at a slow 20 kilometers per hour.
It is an appropriation of the architecture of the most recent postcard of the metropolis to denounce the transformation of the urban landscape and create a new look on the city.
During the exhibition, I challenged Ingo Hoffmann - the greatest Brazilian Stock Car driver - to an unusual race.
I drove a carriage pulled by a Lusitanian horse on the bicycle path along the banks of the Pinheiros River, and Hoffmann drove a sports car on the express lane of the riverside. The result was a technical tie.
For me, the carriage is the most appropriate symbol to represent mobility on the streets of São Paulo.
Iron, wood, resin, automotive paint, mannequin and leather
2.50 x 10 x 3 m
Photo: Rogério Canella
