Lanzarote hosts three exhibitions within the 1st Biennial of Architecture, Art and Landscape of the Canary Islands, with the aim of encouraging reflection on the natural environment

Plug Inn Hotel: Reflection of immigration

Welcome to the Plugg Inn Hotel. A place for reflection and understanding. A place built with what destroys reality day by day. A place based on pieces of boats, ...

December 1 2006 (10:11 WET)
Plug Inn Hotel: Reflection of Immigration
Plug Inn Hotel: Reflection of Immigration

Welcome to the Plugg Inn Hotel. A place for reflection and understanding. A place built with what destroys reality day by day. A place based on pieces of boats, scraps of blankets, empty bottles. Waste located around the abandoned boats in which hundreds of people travel seeking a better world.

María Papadimitrou is an architect of wills. The Greek artist has spread her "hotels" throughout several countries, within the T. A. M. A. (Temporary Autonomous Museum for All) project, where she has recreated a world around immigration, suffering, and above all, the capacity for human resilience. The Plugg Inn Hotel is one of her works. Immersed in the framework of the Castle of San Gabriel, it invites the visitor to enter, through objects from boats, into a reality that we only know from the outside.

The inauguration of the Plug Inn Hotel was added this Wednesday to the exhibitions of Ángel Marcos, "The Black Sea" (in the Castle of Guanapay), and Mateo Maté, "Domestic Nationalism" (on the Arrecife Promenade), within the 1st Biennial of Architecture, Art and Landscape of the Canary Islands. Until next February, the most emblematic places of the seven islands will host exhibitions, seminars and debates around the conservation of the environment.

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