For her first major temporary public art project in the United States, Cristina Iglesias, unearthed the forgotten terrains and geographic history of Madison Square Park in a newly commissioned public art installation.

Landscape and Memory places five underground bronze spaces, flowing with water arriving in different sequences, into the park’s Oval Lawn, harkening back to when the Cedar Creek-now buried underground-coursed across the land where the park stands today. The pieces are surrounded by Fountain Grass, tracing the river course.

Building on Iglesias’s practice of unearthing the forgotten and excavating natural history, Landscape and Memory resurfaces in the imaginations of contemporary viewers the now-invisible force of this ancient waterway.