YOU AND I  2004

multi media installation

Open Ateliers 2004, Rijksakademie

white curtains, metal tubes, blue floor, surround sound. sound track  of 20 minutes

‘You and I’ is an installation in which one can wonder and listen to bits and pieces of conversation between two lovers. The work can as-well be seen  from high above inside the space. From this view point one will notice that the installation does not consist out of random forms, but that one has been wondering through a three-dimensional text; ‘You and I’, designed in curly shaped letters which have an labyrinthian anatomy by themselves.

The work plays with different levels of realities; the physical reality of the experience and seduction; the curtains feel like a skin which invites one to wonder. Then there is the fictional conversation between the two lovers which causes a slightly uneasy atmosphere; one can hear them breathing, talking, coughing and giggling, but one will never cross their path. But still one is willing to believe it, and to be seduced by a fictional world. And there is the psychological reality of language, the from above to be read love-letter ‘You and I’ which refers to the romantical notion to become ‘we’.