DOWN (2019)
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2019 / intervention / SECONDroom, Antwerp (BE) / dust sheets, wood, metal, ropes, chalk
2019 / intervention / SECONDroom, Antwerp (BE) / dust sheets, wood, metal, ropes, chalk
In the week before the exhibition in Antwerp, there was a bank robbery where the thieves escaped through a tunnel to another building. Down is a naive reenactment of this action as translated into an intervention in the public space, on the street, in front and inside of the exhibition space.
Inside, viewers find an entrance to the underground. The space it leads to is accessible by rappelling down a rope connected to a grappling hook. We also see a map drawn on the floor from inside to outside, ending at a sewer entrance.
The title of the one day intervention is ‘Down’ but when we look up we see another intervention hanging on the façade of the exhibition space: a dust sheet with spray-painted grids. Is it a way of indicating the event? Or is it a way to misguide, deflect or cover up?