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This work was made on location for '222 Volt'. An exhibition that lasted only 4 hours.

Consisting of two slide projectors working on time switches, the work shows a man, or rather a shadow of a man, continuously walking up a stairwell.
Projected in the corners of the same stairwell, the climbing shadow starts on the left screen, and when passed, continues upwards on the right screen.

As the projectors are installed in the middle of the stairwell, it is impossible for passing visitors to avoid walking through the projections.
Afraid to disturb they try to duck and walk through quickly, but in fact this action contributes to the work:

By casting their own shadows over it, they repeat the action and pull these motions from the screens into reality.

 

© Steef van Lent