Barcelona
May 29 - September 2, 2001

The Meeting Point was a public space installation in the courtyard of the Palau de la Virreina in Barcelona.

The proposal takes its inspiration from popular language and the connection between the Rambla and the Boqueria market. The Meeting Point introduces the symbolism of the egg as a center and four tables in the form of luminous arrows supported by cans of food as the cardinal points.

In fact, the egg is a seven-meter high chicken coop, connected to the terrace of the upper courtyard by white garlands forming a pergola lit by yellow lightbulbs.

Hens, cocks and chicks all live together in the chicken coop/tower, which takes the form of a "happy home", with dining-room, sofa and television set playing, exactly every fifteen minutes, a video with a song "Tengo una debilidad" by Antonio Machin.

The installation includes also a showcase with the Barcelona Eagle and Giants, as well as fifteen automatic vending machines displaying a range of products, from fresh eggs to cava.

Benches and tables with sockets, computers and laptop eggboxes and information about "Barcelona Art Report 2001. Experiences" triennale, is intended to form more than one single meeting-point; a meeting-point to eat and talk, to exchange and reflect, to enter or leave the market, to pass by or stop off, to rest or to act.

Once the triennale is over, the 5,152 cans of food that form part of the installation will be distributed to charity centers.