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Exit-Wall (2010)
Installation (ca. 200 electric exit signs, permanent magnets, multisockets, metal structure); dimensions: 4m (width) x 2.25m (height) x 0.1m (depth)

See also: Exit-Wall / The sky is the limit     Exit-Wall Video


 

     

 

"Exit-Wall" is a modular installation comprising hundreds of illuminant exit signs assembled by means of permanent magnets.
Usually the signs are used in public spaces to indicate, in case of emergency, an escape route to the outside. By contrast, we are employing the exit signs like bricks of a wall to build a barrier within a space. For us, the paradoxical nature of this assemblage – originating from the contradiction between the linguistic meaning of its constituting parts (the exit signs) and the physical obstacle it poses in reality – evokes the inherent ambiguities of different limits in "real life": architectural, political, cultural, psychological, technological...

 

 

Exit-Wall / The sky is the limit (2009)
Installation (Exit sign stickers, satellite dish with CCTV camera, TV monitor)

 

               

 

               

 

               

 

In this initial version of the project "EXIT-WALL", the focus of the intervention is the limit between the gallery space and the street outside. By covering the gallery window with hundreds of partially transparent exit-sign stickers (which also had been sent out as invitation cards) the access to the inside space is conditioned. A chromed satellite dish - with a CCTV camera replacing the usual LNB head - captures the sky and the images are displayed inside the gallery. Wordplay and “visionplay” revolve around the “wall of exits”. The interior exhibits itself in the exterior space and the exterior imposes itself in the interior…

 

 

Exit-Wall Video (2010)

A video featuring the Exit-Wall has been produced for the BBC Big Screen network and can be viewed here:

Some photos of the screening on Dover's BBC Big Screen during September/October 2010:

            

 

 

The Exit-Wall project has been realised with kind support from: Conseil Régional Nord-Pas de Calais, Bureau d’Art et de Recherche - BAR #2, La Condition Publique.

 

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