Blank_Window Shopping
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Context
Blank is an experimental sculptural ensemble made up of five exhibits exploring different meanings of emptiness. Developed with Felix Weinold for Neue Galerie im Höhmannhaus in Augsburg.
Approach
As one approaches the vertical blinds of the project »Window Shopping«, they immediately shut. The exhibit is meant to frustrate audience anticipation and expectation by censoring the exhibit when a viewer gets too close.
Consisting of six exhibits, »blank« is an experimental sculptural ensemble. The elements occupy the room according different interpretations of the theme:
Blank: shining – bright – purged – clean – empty space. These and other facets pose the impulse and framework of the project that is finally filled by the audience.
»blank« plays on the audience’s associative readiness and openness to concentrate on the barely perceptible, and to come away with their own sensory understanding. »blank« takes time, concentration and attention, yet it rewards one with ciphers, humor and pure eye candy. »blank« consists of a series of single modules that were created over a year for this project.
The shop windows of the »Neue Galerie im Höhmannhaus« deny what is usually always possible: an overview of the exhibition without having to enter.
This is because the vertical blinds close as you approach. Yet, in doing so, the viewer is already seeing the first installation, which also corresponds with another inside the gallery space: refusal and invitation all at once.