Honeymoon Top

Since the late 1960s, Antoni Miralda’s developing practice has focused on the intersection of ritual, visual culture and collective participation. After his early experiments in Paris, where he introduced food as a symbolic language, his work expanded in New York through actions and installations that intervene in public space, questioning cultural myths. It was in this context that the series Honeymoon Project (1986–1992) emerged, an imaginary wedding between the Statue of Liberty and the Columbus Monument, conceived as an ironic response to the o!cial celebrations for the 500th anniversary of the so-called ‘discovery’ of America. This piece forms part of that project, presenting two simultaneous ascents of monuments in Barcelona and New York on a split screen. The choreography of vertical movements, accompanied by solemn music, constructs a final image of symbolic union. Rather than explicit criticism, the piece offers a festive and ambivalent interpretation of historical narratives and the rituals that sustain them.