we'll slide down the surface of things
time: MT - 2 months
project: installation
project date: autumn 2002
project name: 'We'll slide down the surface
of things'
client: Rutger Wolfson, director Vleeshal
Middelburg
where: Vleeshal Middelburg
subject: a fragment of a modernist museum
as an installation for paintings by Arnout Kilian (NL), Glen Rubsamen (USA)
and Frank Bauer (D)
description: we live in an artificial reality.
Our inner lives are drenched with images of better worlds that the mass media
pour out over us. These images colour our desires as well as our experiences.
In the Vleeshal paintings are being shown that show this artificial reality.
To show the ambiguity of this ideal yet artificial reality as an architectural
experience, the exhibition is on display in a fragment of a modernist museum.
It is a 1:1 model of a building where the facade is still standing but the
inside could only partly be reconstructed.
team: Kees Wijker and Vleeshal building team
stadium: completed
materials: recycle materials from the basement
storage of the Vleeshal, green gray expoxy floor on wood, walls of, 2nd hand
tube lightfittings
photography: Vleeshal
documentation: nrc handelsblad
