Sensory Spaces 7 - Aleksandra Domanović
Sensory Spaces is a series of commissioned solo projects presented in the Willem van der Vorm Gallery, located in the freely accessible exhibition space in the museum’s entrance hall. Artists are invited to respond to the architectural qualities of the space, emphasizing notions of transformation and surprise.
For the seventh edition Aleksandra Domanovic (Novi Sad, Yugoslavia 1981) has made an installation that examines themes such as reproduction and representation and man and machine. In the Willem van der Vorm Gallery a cluster of semi-transparent foils printed with images that include skeletons with printers hangs from the ceiling. The images are computer-generated 3D models, printed as 2D renderings. In the images the perspective is reversed so that objects in the foreground appear smaller than those in the background. The various semi-transparent layers combine to create a three-dimensional image that changes constantly as one walks through the space.
Reproduction, danse macabre and gender
In this installation Aleksandra Domanovic combines different perspectives, times and spaces. Her work questions how two-dimensional images relate to reality and the role of reproduction techniques and digitisation in this relationship. The images of skeletons, a symbol of mortality, refer to a series of woodcuts on the ‘danse macabre’ theme by Hans Holbein the Younger, which in 1538 was reproduced in large numbers thanks to the new technology of book printing. The installation also examines the relationship between women and technological innovation. It includes multiple images of the ilium, the part of the pelvis that differs markedly between men and women.
Subjective and objective
Aleksandra Domanovic studied design and architecture. Her artistic practice began with her involvement in the website vvork.com, which she maintained together with several other artists. The website was one of the first blogs to show works of art online in their own right rather than as documentation. From the subjective and personal to the objective and general, Domanovic draws inspiration for her artworks from her personal life and from the disintegration of Yugoslavia and its consequences.
Sensory Spaces Series
Sensory Spaces is a series of commissioned solo projects presented in the Willem van der Vorm Gallery, located in the freely accessible exhibition space in the museum’s entrance hall. Artists are invited to respond to the architectural qualities of the space, emphasizing notions of transformation and surprise.
Sensory Spaces 1 - Oscar Tuazon
American artist Oscar Tuzaon has kicked off this new series. In this open space Tuazon has arranged several sculptural constructions. The artist fuses architectural and...
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Sensory Spaces 2 - Sabine Hornig
Sabine Hornig (Germany, lives in Berlin) is known for making photographs, sculptures and installations that distort or intensify our experience of space and time. At first glance, her work can appear deceptively simple, but...
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Sensory Spaces 3 - Elad Lassry
Elad Lassry focuses on the workings of the photographic image, both on a two-dimensional plane and in three-dimensional space. ‘Pictures,’ says Lassry, ‘are so very like what we see, and so very unlike what we see.’ He strips...
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Sensory Spaces 4 - Liu Wei
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen asked Liu Wei (Beijing, 1972) to make a site-specific for the forth edition of Sensory Spaces. Liu Wei’s work deals with China’s rapid modernization and urban growth. Literally using the materials a city is made of, he takes...
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Sensory Spaces 5 - Siobhán Hapaska
The fifth site-specific installation is made by Siobhán Hapaska. Siobhán Hapaska (Belfast, 1963) makes installations that speak to all the senses. She uses organic and synthetic materials and works on the border between...
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Sensory Spaces 6 - Sara VanDerBeek
For the sixth edition of the series Sensory Spaces Sara VanDerBeek (Baltimore 1976) walked around Rotterdam for several days; she photographed what she saw and built an archive of images. From this experience, she has created a modular installation...
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Sensory Spaces 7 - Aleksandra Domanovic
For the seventh edition Aleksandra Domanovic (Novi Sad, Yugoslavia 1981) has made an installation that examines themes such as reproduction and representation and man and machine. In the Willem van der Vorm Gallery a cluster of semi-transparent foils printed with images that include...
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Sensory Spaces 8 - Mike Nelson
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen invited the British artist Mike Nelson (Loughborough 1967) to produce a work for Sensory Spaces 8. Nelson presented ‘Amnesiac Shrine’, an installation made up of a set of successive artworks that combine to form an...
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Sensory Spaces 9 - Beni Bischof
Beni Bischof is the ultimate mix and matcher: in all his work he combines and adapts existing images, texts and situations. His work can be read as an ironic commentary on the banality of everyday life. And he doesn’t...
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Sensory Spaces 10 - Olaf Nicolai
Nicolai presented a site-specific adaptation of the works ‘Probestück 1, 2 and 3’. Following the Greek composer Iannis Xenakis’ (1922-2001) definition of architecture as ‘petrified music’, it investigates...
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Sensory Spaces 11 - Raphael Hefti
Hefti's work is experimental, it untilizes chemical and technical processes with industrial equipment in order to discover new things. His work includes many aspects; nature and industry, abstraction and figuration. Hefti often works with engineers, scientists and even...
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