Remember How To Forget (in reference to Hans Bernhard Reichows `car-friendly town` and the `Greenbox`)/ bridging day, 2012
Wooden trellis-work fence, photo wallpaper, ramps, carpet, rope, size of the garage / Dear Garage exhibition no.2
The bridge, constructed from a wooden fence, creates a passage from the outside to the back room of the garage. The garage itself is not accessible in a true sense, its more of a transit room. The passageway plays with forms of presentation and exhibition in zoos and historical museums, for example when a red roped creates a barrier that guides you past a stuffed animal or a reproduction of a stone age scene. Furthermore, the work reflects the viewer‘s expectations that arise when visiting an exhibition or when approaching an artistic work from a spatial perspective.
Remember How To Forget (in reference to Hans Bernhard Reichows ‘car-friendly town‘ and the ‘Greenbox‘)/ bridging day is not a place to linger. You literally walk through the work and end up either outside or inside, but hardly in the work itself. The bridge is disproportionate to the space of the garage – it forms a narrow path leaving the rest of the space inaccessible. The construction is a reference to Hans Bernhard Reichow‘s ‘Autogerechte Stadt’ (‘car friendly town’), in which his urban planning foresees less space for pedestrians than for cars, where pedestrians have to use subterranean walkways or bridges. The garage transforms itself into a kind of staged situation, in which the visitor becomes both the pedestrian and the actor observing their own actions.
The green screen stays untouched, empty and open for everything.
