Matadero Madrid center for contemporary creation
SISTEMA METRICO CAMPO DE FUTBOL
HISAE IKENAGA
Institution
The project reflects on how common it has become to read or hear references to sports playing fields for measuring large surface areas in the mass media. But what are the real dimensions of a football pitch? Different people use their own methods to measure surfaces: they make reference to everyday objects that maintain no relation with the established decimal metric system. This time, Ikenaga measures the area, the perimeter, the height and the volume of the Abierto X Obras space, using a football pitch, a person, a pile of furniture and smoke machines as references, so that one might appreciate the magnitude of private space surrounding us.