The neighbors of neighborhood Luján were surprised by the visit of a group of enigmatic silhouettes that were installed in one of the walls of the old Dos Pinos building.
These curious figures – that besides projecting their shadow in the street– form part of the artistic intervention of the
Costa Rican artist Susana Sánchez. Her work is part of the project "In the street", that has been developed since 2006 by the Museum of Art and Contemporary Design (MADC) which invites artists to do creative interventions in public spaces of San José.
A white wall, of six meters long for three meters high, has become the canvas where several figures of black color symbolize the perennial tracks that leave the inhabitants of the cities in different urban spaces. Each one of the silhouettes reflects its shadow in the street.
The artist plants the silhouettes as tracks of human beings in a city. "If the walls, the streets, the banks, the parks or the buildings could speak, they would have many interesting stories that reveal the life in the metropolises", affirmed Sánchez.
The uniform silhouettes looks forward at himself, just as hundreds of pedestrians who cross among their own silhouettes every day in the urban streets.
While Sánchez and other collaborators worked in their artwork, passer-bys and neighbors approached to observe closely the visiting silhouettes. "I like a lot of what they’re doing, it’s pretty. The walls are seen prettier with these shapes than with all the graffiti that was once before", said little María Milagro, a nine year old girl who lives just in front of the wall that was painted.
The artist will also carry out an intervention in the park of the Mexico neighborhood, the 28th of October. This time, the silhouettes will be done with vinyl adhesive and they will be "seated" on the seats in the park.
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