ANOTHER PLACE

YEAR: 2003.

GROUP EXHIBITION: »Temporary Spaces«, Charlottenborg Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark.

MATERIALS: EUR-pallets, red optic foil, hessian-covered foam rubber cushions, and light from electric lightbulbs.

ANOTHER PLACE consists of a stairway that turns into a plateau in front of a large showroom window. The whole construction is built from EUR-pallets. Hessian-covered foam rubber cushions are mounted on the plateau. 10-15 naked lightbulbs hang from the ceiling. The window is covered in transparent, red, optic foil. The public are able to walk up the stairway and either sit or lie on the plateau,
looking out through the red window.

The view visible through the red window is the harbour entrance named Nyhavn in Copenhagen. Historically Nyhavn is known for
having a naughty side, where sailors on shore leave visited prostitutes, while the other side was the elegant, cultural side, which is where Charlottenborg is located. ANOTHER PLACE is an installation that visualizes and spatializes a different place in the exhibition spaces of Charlottenborg: a place normally inaccessible to the public. Thus the plateau creates a place that enables visitors to look at the view. But at the same time, their body becomes an exhibition piece when viewed from the outside. The actual building of Charlottenborg appears as a femininely gendered and prostituted body. Thus the installation focuses on the problematic between the masculine
gaze of desire and the feminine body as an object; the room and the window indicate the paradox of being considered an object as well as the desire to be seen.

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