Mirjam Kuitenbrouwer - INSTANT EXTENSION




Mirjam Kuitenbrouwer, installation views, Wohnmaschine 2000



November 30, 2000 - January 20, 2001

 

Mirjam Kuitenbrouwer, whose works were shown this year at the Sezession in Vienna and at the Taro Nasu Gallery in Tokyo, will, for her Berlin exhibition, show a new series of "panel-works", photography and the installation INSTANT EXTENSION.

 

"In her two-dimensional picture spaces, Mirjam Kuitenbrouwer turns perspectival order upside down and irritates the viewer´s visual habits. She prefers to work with windows and doors, which involves both external and internal experience of space at the same time, evoking seeing through the wall from the wall, seeing with the wall.*”

 

In the first room we will show three new photographs which appear to beoptic tools and yet are simultaneously reflections of their environment.

 

INSTANT EXTENSION is an installation in the middle room of the gallery. As well as creating a simultaneousness of rooms, it takes the viewer in as a part of installation and as well places the viewer in the position of being the work: The viewer is in the picture! The different materials: wallpaper, mirror and a panel, create a built in panoramic mirror (blind spot) which takes in its own reflections and shrinks it to the same standard. This creates an ensemble which makes visible the never ending reminder of rooms.

 

* Sandra Engelhardt, Von der Fläche zum Bildraum. Korrelation mit Giotto,

in Mirjam Kuitenbrouwer exhibitioofn catalogue at the Viennese Secession, Vienna 2000, p. 5.