Please take up space
Please take up space, 2020, MDF, acrylic glass, acrylic mirrors, LEDs, ceramics, oil on canvas, hardware, 5 parts, each 18 x 12 x 12 in.
Thank you for your participation in my success (Félicette), 2020, glazed ceramics, 23 x 9 x 9 in. (58 x 23 x 23 cm)
Detail of “Please take up space”, 2020, MDF, acrylic glass, acrylic mirrors, LEDs, ceramics, oil on canvas, hardware, 5 parts, each 18 x 12 x 12 in.
Detail of “Please take up space”, 2020, MDF, acrylic glass, acrylic mirrors, LEDs, ceramics, oil on canvas, hardware, 5 parts, each 18 x 12 x 12 in.
Please take up space is a seating environment and display. It consists of five white mdf cabinets. Each cabinet has a handmade ceramic knob, a tiny tennis ball. One of the cabinets serves as a pedestal to display the ceramic sculpture Thank you for your participation in my success (Félicette), the other four are meant as seats for viewers of the video. While they are identical in size their interiors are different: One cabinet displays a 17 x 11inch oil painting of an optical illusion of a door behind acrylic glass, another cabinet has a gridded cat hologram behind a two way mirror while the others just have closed doors that leave us guessing what’s inside (Maybe a cat? And if so, is it dead or alive?).