Las Palmeras visits the festival with IN-HABIT’s representatives Isotta MacFadden and Javier Martìnez.

The residents of Las Palmeras have visited this year’s edition of the Flora Festival with the representatives of the IN-HABIT project. UCO team members Isotta MacFadden, Javier Martìnez, Nuria Chacón and Marta Baena accompanied the residents of the neighbourhood to explore the wonders of this fifth edition of the floral festival, which takes place every October and fills the courtyards of Cordoba with colour.

Under the theme of ‘Metamorphosis’, this edition has featured two national and three international artists, who have brought their original designs inspired by the space of the Andalusian city. On this occasion, the courtyards of the capital were distributed as follows:

At the Diputación de Córdoba, the field of orange lilies by the British artist Emma Weaver made the neighbours wonder whether they were in a field, a pond or a courtyard. The work, entitled Liminares, aimed to recreate a space that would make the visitors doubt whether they were in one place or another, at the beginning or at the end of something: adolescence, a border, illness.

The Palacio de Viana gave the neighbours the opportunity to enter into El camino a través del camino, by the Spanish artist Cordero Atelier, where the vegetation was presented in an orderly, regular and predictable manner. The courtyard of the Columnas was thus transformed into an ideal, fantastic and colourful futuristic landscape.

The artist Kokon, who received the first prize in this edition, exposed his work Ovidio at the Palacio de Orive. Made of esparto grass, an everyday material, the high structures transformed the courtyard of the Palace into a metamorphosis of colour recreated by translucent mirrors.

Una perspectiva de color, by the North American artist Maurice Harris, was located in the courtyard of the Archaeological Museum and its goal was to explore the connections between three ideas: the theory of colour and light, the concept of race and the futility of attempting to dominate nature. Finally, Yuji Kobayashi’s installation Círculo de vida in the Patio de los Naranjos of the Mosque of Cordoba, is inspired by the role of water as a source of life. The Japanese artist represented this vital cycle with a multi-sided work where vegetation and water dialogued with the environment.