Times Square honors Covid-19 survivors with false nail sculpture

Times Square honors Covid-19 survivors with false nail sculpture

Acrylic false nails, colors that do not go unnoticed, diamonds, kinetic lights, water, wafers of wishes. On the outside, it is shaped like a cocoon, shell or also a vulva, as identified by some viewers.

Currently, the work located in the most famous square as an immersive installation in tribute to the lives of the survivors of these almost two years in which the health crisis –after the start of Covid-19– affected individual trajectories in unthinkable ways.

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Inside this maximalist shell there is a water fountain, an intimate oasis that opens up in this iconic urban space and imposes the sound of water and the possibilities of desire as the engine of hope and encounter around the fountain.

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As the artist wrote in the Times Square art catalog: “On the subject of definition, the survivors know who they are; no one else can proclaim that to you. Conceived and created during a time when we are socially estranged, my goal with this My job is to make a temporary monument that reflects the experiences of masking and interiority that many of us have known and that have now become part of all of our lives. “

In the words of the art department of the intersection of avenues in Manhattan, the work was “designed to be a welcoming, warm and enveloping space, visitors will enter the structure and find a variety of sensory experiences such as heat, sound and aroma.”

Meanwhile, the installation functions “as much as an ode to how we maintain ourselves as a lush, life-affirming monument to survivors.”

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