Installation in an abondoned asylumcentre
2007
Installation of wood and plate-glass
Size: 5m/2.20m and 9m/2.20m
In the two tiled rooms for washing machines of the asylum centre I made an installation with mirror laths. These are wooden laths (each 2.20m long and 0.04/0.02m); on two sides covered with plate-glass.
In the first room I placed the construction with laths in the middle of two identical walls.
Because the construction was placed symmetrical in the room, the construction was nearly invisible. In reality there is a rhythmic pattern of real space and virtual mirrored space. The virtual world merged into real world. Because of this you experience space in another way.
When you walk along the construction you have a cinematic experience, just as the photographs of Muybridge and you feel as if you are drowning in space.
If you are standing in front of the construction, it is as if you see yourself at the other side of the construction. This gives a strange split feeling as if your consciousness is on this side and your body at the other side of the bars.
In the second room I built the construction in the middle of walls that were not identical and I placed on certain other spots mirror laths too. There appeared new visual spaces that merged visually into real space. In this room that looked like a prison , there appeared new spaces.
The installation was about disorientation in what is real and what is virtual.
