Argentine artist Adrián Villar Rojas is known for his large-scale, site-specific sculptural installations that attempt to transform spaces and take visitors to a post-human moment in the future. Invited by curator Eungie Joo to take part in the 12th Sharjah Biennial, he picked one of the furthest locations from the emirate's center and created Planetarium, 2015. In an abandoned salt and fish factory in the city of Kalba, he collected, along with his team, stones, shells, roots and a range of organic materials from all around the emirate, and used them to build colorful columns that act as independent eco-systems and change over the three-month exhibition period.
Medrar.TV met with Villar Rojas while in Sharjah and discussed with him the process he undertook to develop the work and its relation to his previous projects.