"Pull" sculptures (Havana)

“Pull” was an illustration of an autonomous ecosystem that was pulled to different sites throughout Havana, Cuba, with some of the sites indoors and others outdoors, including a location in Parque Central, Havana. It contained fish in tanks that ate off of a regenerating supply of plant life and algae.

A proposal for a place without a door and without walls, Pull was a sculptural ecosystem made of two partial spheres. Pull moved through Havana while elemental life-support systems cycled through the spheres. In a process of compromise, balance, and care, it was pulled across the city, inhabiting an outdoor area at Parque Central and inside the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana.

When activated, it was a stage for storytelling about shared futures and the ability each person has to narrate.

A porous kind of island, ecosystem, and organism in formation, Pull was a poem and a tool. Request Full PDF

A project by artist Mary Mattingly with:

Project Manager: Ananda Morera

Architects: Yoandy Rizo and Yunior Rodriguez Castillo Rizo and Castillo

Building Team: Osmany Garcia Fuentes; David Morales Escalante; Miguel Escalante Castillo; Lasaro Alejauduo Aluaces Peralta

Electrical Engineer Advisor: Lonny Grafman

Event Curator: Giulietta Vigueras Borrego

Student Coordinator: Yamir Macías, Director of Education, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana

Universidad de la Habana Design team: Julio Lamas Pinilla, Nataly Gonzalez, Carlos Carbonell Pull is part of Wild Noise, an exchange between the Bronx Museum of the Arts and the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana.