La Luz, (The Light), a carbonated series of architectural installations inside the Museo Convento De Santo Domingo Qorikancha, Cuzco, Peru; August 10-31 2012.
In pre-Columbian times, the temple was sheathed in gold plates and its chambers filled with masterpieces of Inca metal work, pieces that were destroyed by the Spanish conquistadors.
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My intervention, “La Luz” inside the former Inca temple paid tribute to the past glories of this important site via the installation of hundreds of bottles of Peruvian soda (more than 600kg worth).
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The most popular local soft drinks in Peru are a brilliant yellow color and I used these, in combination with ambient light, to recreate the golden light that shone inside the temple.
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On the last day of the exhibition, the public was invited to take sections of the work home with them so that no traces of it would remain.
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