Contextual minimalism III

A model will help you review the attraction

exhibition view
publication

Serie of three solo shows, curated by Gery Van Tendeloo

Contextual minimalism I: Koenraad Dedobbeleer
Contextual minimalism II: Louis Decordier

Benedengalerie – Stadsschouwburg Kortrijk

The gallery has two public intrances, a front intrance and a side intrance.
The gallery is always physically guarded by a guard seated at a desk.
The desk can - according to the exhibition - be placed anywhere in the gallery.

In the gallery, I placed two balustrades next to each other deviding the gallery into two spaces,
one to be entered through the front door and the other through the side door.
I placed the desk for the guard somehow in the middle of the space behind the balustades.
A visitor could choose to take the front door and look over the two balustrades to the guard or to
go to him using the other entrance (or to jump over the balustrades).

Whenever I visited the gallery, I never saw the guard actually seated at his desk.
He usually guarded the space from behind the glass service intrance in the back.