Seven Pieces for One Space
Andreas Schmid
Peter Haimerl
Philippe Parreno
Are You Meaning Company
Katja Davar
Auke de Vries
6:00 P.M. (2001), Philippe Parreno's projection of a field of light, interrupted by a few cast shadows, onto a carpet stems from the world of the thinkable that can happen everywhere. You find this world in books, comics, video games or films which are interspersed with spaces and temporality.
Philippe Parreno, 6:00 P.M., (2001), carpet, 321 x 250,2 cmThe carpet is part of it, perhaps a fragment of a mise-en-scène for a film, where the crucial scene could play in an almost empty apartment, with the evening sun sending forth its fading beams through its large windows. What will happen? What has happened here? The situation resembles a threshold. While you may still feel anchored in the here and now with one leg, the other one has already stepped into a different time and a different space. Having been a spectator a minute ago, you now find yourself participating either playing the part of an actor or perhaps playing yourself. Philippe Parreno's uses the medium of film as a model for his artistic thinking, which focuses on working by way of exhibition itself, rather than on individual objects.