wood, steel
width: 85 cm; path length: 32 m; extremity height: 14 m


As part of the Museu do Açude collection, Rio de Janeiro, Walkway is a permanent work set up in the middle of the rain forest. Its scale and sculptural presence make it an element of the landscape. Its shape, defined by the position of the trees capable of sustaining it, starts from a hillside and reaches a point of great visibility.

Walkway is an architectural object, designed to be experienced by visitors that allows them to experience the landscape from a new perspective. The proposal of this work is to be a way for an individual experience, visual and corporal, of immersion in a large open space. The landscape is experienced visually as well as in its tactile and spatial qualities. With the narrow shape, long length, some points reaching great heights and an almost invisible bodyguard, Walkway generates in visitors a feeling of isolation and smallness before the vast space of the forest.



“Walkway, in the broader context of Eduardo Coimbra ’s work, is like a vector that pierces the depth of the forest space and creates the conditions for us to enter that space – a rising platform that leads to nowhere – with no concerns other than that of enjoying the experience of coexistence in the interiority of the act of seeing and in the interiority of the landscape. A kind of inverse landscape. That is, instead of being a landscape that “escapes” us, it is a landscape which we appropriate and experience from within it, even though we are an external element to it.” (Marcio Doctors)

“For Coimbra landscape is, before all else, an experience of the act of seeing (like a Turner, in practice, and like a Magritte, in idea) which brings with it the irreducibility (and perhaps anguish) between matter and image of that which is visible.” (M. D.)