Oak rumble
CEAAC, Strasbourg, 2010

Oak rumble, 2006
solid wood, glass, velvet
192 x 175 x 72 cm

In a museum context, the display case is conceived as a neutral medium: a transparent enclosure thatprotects, preserves, and simultaneously renders visible. By omitting the exhibited object, the displaycase is stripped of its usual legitimizing function. What remains is, at first glance, an “empty” presentation cabinet. Through subtle structural deviations, incisions, and slight shifts in the glass panels, its function; authority, value, meaning, is called into question, and it becomes the subject of presentation itself.

Oak rumble, 2006
solid wood, glass, velvet
192 x 175 x 72 cm