On this occasion, María Cristina Finucci has chosen Madrid to continue manifesting the existence of the Garbage Patch State, with a special collaboration from the third-year Interior Design students at IED Madrid, who have designed an exhibition to further spread the news of its existence.

After Madrid, the project will continue on April 11, 2014, at the MAXXI Museum in Rome with a large installation that will include the embassy of the Garbage Patch State and a 40-meter-long sculpture.

At IED Madrid, the artistic intervention will feature two stages and moments: an outdoor installation at the IED Madrid headquarters, the Palacio de Altamira on Flor Alta Street, where, after a spectacular scene set with a cloak of bottles, another reality will be revealed: inside the bottles, an ecosystem will be growing, ultimately showing that another form of life is growing within these containers.

The second part of this intervention will take place in the Exhibition Cabinet of the Palacio de Altamira, with an interpretation and description of the project’s process created by the third-year Interior Design students at IED Madrid, under the direction of architect Izaskun Chinchilla and the guidance of Adriana Cabello and Jimena Merino.

The curator of the installation at IED Madrid, Pedro Medina, points out: “Ultimately, the goal is to create art that incorporates an active and social dimension, even assuming the exemplary role of the artwork and its potential as a field of experimentation for current problems, with the aim of building a future project of international reach. At this moment, artistic work is crucial as a space for the creation of new imaginaries and, above all, for its interpretative dimension in the face of a world of increasing complexity, becoming a pathway towards a horizon of forms that must be considered ethically, politically, and poetically within the new global context. WASTELAND presents a panorama that demands decisions, knowing full well that we will only be able to inhabit the time to come if we manage to change the ways of seeing, so that other ways of making the world can emerge.”