Out of Balance
[2012]
Aluminun, steel, water, ECG
W 6m x D 2,5m x H 4m
The installation “Out of Balance” consists out of a big aluminium construction. Two accessible containers float in the air, connected via a tube affixed to the ceiling, like a colossal set of scales. The aluminium sheet-lined rooms (H280 cm x W160 cm x D160 cm) are open in the front and back. The sidewalls have 70 x 120 cm wide openings, which form the entrance on the outside, and from the inside a visual axis in the opposite room. In a balanced state, the open-meshed floors of the rooms are held at rest just above two pools of water – a central element of the installation. As the visitor enters or leaves either space via the two-step staircase, this equilibrium is upset, creating a motion that threatens immersion into “the tank”.