Location: Place de Metz
At the crossroads of the main axis of the city center of Luxembourg, where cars, pedestrians and public transport meet, Marco Godinho installs four flags. Each flag is represented by a coloured gradation that corresponds to a natural element (water, fire, wood and metal) and to a specific direction (north, south, east, west).
On the flags one can read (Closer to the north / Closer to the south / Closer to the east / Closer to the west), words that tell us the directions and above all that we are closer to each of them if we pay attention to their presence, the public space thereby being transformed into a space conscious of our inner selves.
This intervention is as much a proposal for humans as for the wind, the rain and the birds. The colours linked to the elements and to the directions of the cardinal points are intended to harmonise the environmental energy of a place, in order to favour the invisible forces and energies that pass through it.
Marco Godinho was born in Salvaterra de Magos (Portugal) and lives and works between Luxembourg and Paris. From installations and videos to his writings and collaborative pieces, his singular, post-conceptual practice is reflecting on our subjective experience of time and space, questions of exile, memory, and geography that are inspired by his own experience of nomadic life, suspended between different languages and cultures and nourished by literature and poetry.
