“Intermediate places are places of passage, but they are also places of action. They are zones between staying and leaving, corridors linked to variable durations (lengths) and intensities (extensions), always at the half-way point between space and time. In the case of Ana Vicente’s intervention, this reference to traveling between two points and return has added meaning, since Vicente lives in England, although she maintains close ties (of return) with Portugal. Joining two benches in a park together with a woven cable, like a kind of loom, is therefore doubly significative. Besides this biographic remission, this web reinforces the existence of a continuous imperceptible space between relatively distant realities. It activates a middle point which becomes an end, entirely reconfiguring the corner of the park, which from path, is transformed into somewhat entrapping niche, full of interstices and subtleties. For a path always lies between two points and return is ultimately the incorporation of the same experience”

Words by Lucia Marques for the “Dressing up Nature” catalogue.

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This work was created for the project “Dressing Up Nature”, which took place in the Monteiro-Mor Park in the National Museum of Costume, Lisbon , Portugal between 18/Jul/2004 and 30/Sep/2004.

“Dressing Up Nature” envolved interventions by Ana Anacleto, Ana Gonçalves, Ana Ventura, Ana Vicente, Carla Rebelo, Ema M, Patrícia Guerreiro e Vasco Barata.

Besides being a Botanical Garden, the Monteiro-Mor Park also lodges the National Museum of Costume. In their interventions, the artists seek to cross these two universes- nature and textile.

Each artist work was created for a specific location within the Park. The works marked a path of unexpected situations which encouraged the visitors to visit and explore the place integrally; functioning as well as a point of reference in a mental map linking the physical space, the space of the museum and the individual space of each artist.