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Untitled (Room Extension)

Installation with computer, video projector, chairs, 2005

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Installation view.

One or two viewers are allowed in at a time. The viewer is temped to sit on the chairs. Note that the viewer doesn't cast a shadow on the wall when he sits down.

The viewer's walk to the projection is accompanied by his own large shadow that shrinks as he walks, creating a bodily sensasion that it takes longer to get to the wall. When he gets to the wall, his shadow actually 'blocks' his view of the chair in a peculiarly materialistic way, i.e., the shadow doesn't substracts the image as normally but seems to be there on its own.

Installation view.