En Passant Installation - Berlin
Miruna Toma & Razvan Batin
29.07.2011 - 10.09.2011
Metro Franz Neumann Platz, Berlin
En passant(from French: in passing) is a move on the board game of chess. It is a special capture position: an opposing pawn can capture it if it is moved two squares forward. In this situation, the opposing pawn may capture the first pawn as if taking action that takes place without any efforts alongside another.
The Installation speculates on the title’s two meanings and aims to challenge people out of their indifferent passing-by. It alludes to the thoughts that are constantly on our minds, thoughts that keep us from meeting one another.
Using an interactive staging light, it breaks the daily routine and tries to induce a space of encounter, where people, thoughts and feelings can coincide. We plan to design a temporary community where nothing and no one is random. Casual passers-by become participants, casual wishes become words, casual dreams become images… The work aims at collecting chance and transforming it into a meeting.
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Cyprien Gaillard. The Recovery of Discovery
The Recovery of Discovery
2011
Installation at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, March 27 - May 22, 2011
Packs of 72 000 bottles of ‘Efes’ beer
167.32 x 0.39 x 314.96 inches
Similarly to the relocation of the Pergamon Altar, 72 000 bottles of beer of the brand Efes, whose name makes the most of the mythology of the ancient Greek city of Efes, have been transported from Turkey to Germany. The cardboard boxes filled with bottles form the even steps of the pyramid. By using the monument – by climbing the sculpture and drinking the beer – its destruction is already initiated. The barbaric removal of single architectural elements that have been transported from their original location to Berlin, embodies both the concept of displacement and a tourist colonialism.
