|
Filia den Hollander
During my years at the art academy, I happened to live in a room which in terms of proportions resembled a cube. It also struck me that the room had doors in three sides - giving access to a corridor, a kitchen and an enormous balcony, which doubled my space in the horizontal. The doors opened in semi-circles into the room. From these three starting-points: three-dimensionality, simple geometrics and architectural space, my work widened. On one level, it extended into drawinges - analyzing doors, for example - and phrases. On another level, space for me came to include psychological, political or social space - through the group projects DOUBLE PARTICIPANTS and IN COLLABORATION WITH for example. On a third level, I myself literally entered the architectural sphere; I participated in the Prix de Rome 1995 on Urban Design and Landscape Architecture, and I worked in an urban design and landscape architecture studio as a trainee. Three publications came out (Coordinates, In Collaboration With and 'CONTEXT: 15.8.95-15.2.96, Bureau B+B stedebouw en landschapsarchitectuur'). My work is laid down in the 'BOOKS'. Initially, they were produced for my personal reference. Now, over the years, it becomes clear to me that the BOOKS are my main work - they represent my movements as an artist, my presence in space.
Amsterdam, April 1997
Hinge Room was part of '1994 - Year Of The Hinge Room', a series of works that visualised the idea of an unfolding room. Hinge Room you can print out and install yourself. House and Garden: a three-dimensional entity (house) brought back into a two-dimensional entity (square), and therefrom, by 'piling up' in Paintbrush, a three-dimensional entity (city) visualised again. Computer, mental space, association. Floor-plan is the recycled floor-plan of the exhibition Coordinates that
took place in 1992. On the same places where then were (wall)
objects or vitrine-tables with drawings and photo-graphs, are
now under the clickable circles a new series of works installed,
partly overlapping with the old exhibition.
|