Description
The installation took place at the Wewerka Pavilion, changing it into a temple of the egyptian god Ra.
Installing a neon iris-/pupil-form into the roof of the Wewerka it was turned into the symbol of the god: the eye.
Inside the pavilion there was a projection of an observing pair of eyes. Outside on the building there was a quote from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The great Gatsby” – about a big, forgotten advertising poster showing a pair of eyes, that overlook, god-like, a dumping ground.
But above the grey land and the spasm of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it, you perceive, after a moment, the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg…. His eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days, under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground.
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A neon-iris (145 cm) fixed to the roof of the Wewerka Pavilion so that the roof was changed into an eye.
Inside the pavillion: video projection (L 550cm, H 350cm) of an observing pair of eyes.
On the front of the Wewerka: quotation from “The great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Exhibited in:
Wewerka Pavillon, Münster, Germany, 2001
