Installation
© image: Maria Thereza Alves
"The Museum of Contemporary Art in Pori, Finland, invited me to do something there in 1997. I got a truck-load of rocks the size of fists or potatoes and put them all over the floor of the museum, even in the offices, toilets, and the gift shop. I also put these rocks outside the building, on the sidewalk and into the street. They were not so densely placed that they made a covering; spaced from 50 cm to 100 cm apart. I was trying, with these “free” stones to see if I could free up the architecture itself, and its agenda for the museum. (Not to fight or attack—the building is quite beautiful and well-suited to be an art museum.)" [full text here]
Read bellow Jimmie Durham’s text for the installation.
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