The
installation >O.T. [MEMORY], 1996< tries
to bring back some of the leisure time atmosphere
to a place that was a private bath in the beginning
20th century.
In a completely tiled space with quite cool atmosphere
a child’s room is invented. The visitor is
confronted with a crowded space - not cleaned
up for official representation but accidently
open to enter. Someone has started to play a game
on the walls - using the grid of the tiles as
a game board - and just a few seconds ago left
the space. The walls are covered with squares
[the pattern on their backside is the wellknown
pattern of a german chrildren’s game called
‘Memory’ - original size of playing
card: 5 by 5 cm]. At some places you can see behind
and
some pictures [cut outs from local advertisements
] can be discovered - there are always two
of each:pairs of houses, cats, snakes, flowers,
butterflies etc. The swimming pool next to this
small room adds the missing link to finally integrate
this surreal play:
the sound of screaming children is always with
it.
untitled [Köln-Ehrenfeld],
Cologne, 1995
The
main idea of the installation - part of a project
with 3 artist colleagues in an empty flat -
was to show the beauty of everyday life actions
that were never meant to be art.
Actions that are hidden behind almost every wall,
but will never enter the art world. The installation
invents a personality back to the space. It followes
details already made [acribic repairs of burns
from cigarettes in the kitchen floor] and carefully
adds psychological details.
The visitor enters [as art public] an intimate
situation from everyday life.
There are left overs of a strange hobby: small
pieces of the wall paper are carefully pulled
out, numbered each, collected and archived in
an album for further research. The installation
deals with the phenomena of a hobby as an asthetic
action and cares to keep individual secrets.
bringing
down the house, Dortmund, 1998
The
installation >bringing down the house< has
been realised between october 16th and november
8th 1998. The work was done with grinding machines.
The idea of subtraction was especially interesting
to me as a site specific concept in this exhibition.
There was no material added to the space. Every
little detail that is visible in the installation
was just hidden before. Because the space was
used as a stage for a TV production its walls
were painted orange in 1994. This layer of wall
paint is reached with the art work and made it
possible. The space’s
inner structure, the movement and material of
the walls are turned around [other artist’s
wall paintings - coloured rectangles, a comic
like sketch could be seen within].
