SILLEDA
CHANGING THE VILLAGE THROUGH PROTAGONIST PARTICIPATION
Protagonist participation with the work of Alonso Ríos
The figures of children and teenagers themselves (their silhouettes, bodies, and gestures) become the visual protagonists of the urban space. The aim is not to represent them, but to allow them to inscribe themselves into the landscape with their scale, their language, and their living presence. Their image occupies façades, walls, and partitions, intervening in the urban environment with their collective identity and symbolic power
O rapás a pirmeira esmola
(…) camiño adiante, xa á vista do pobo de As Neves, un rapás que levaba unha cabra atada púxoseme a facer preguntas:
-E logo, canda a pedire?
-Si, ando a pedire.
-Mais leva un folico pequeno.
Antón Alonso Ríos
COLOUR YOUR VILLAGE
The village or city in which we are working, transformed into a game board, a laboratory of experimentation where children and teenagers can act from a new point of view.