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Taking its point of departure in the architectural features of the exhibition space-the first floor of a building complex of partly office, partly light-industrial character-the project formed our investigation into spatial concerns: our colonization and occupation of the room and, at the same time, our representation of it while working and exhibiting in it.
The architectural features of the empty room-it's ornaments, installations and structural elements-were carefully drawn in scale 1:1 - five centimeters displaced. The room was thus not only depicted, but literally copied and re-created in, as well as on, itself. Both the "original," the model for the drawing, as well as its plotting pad were thus the same; the so-called empty (art)room that is somehow always the frame, thus point of departure, for Art as such.
Among the many thin pencil-drawn lines, the straight ones might curl into real corners or be cramped under actual details, distorted and twisted by the uneven and irregular surface, whereas the depiction of hose palpable details might land on perfectly regular pieces of wall, window, floor or the like.
though the drawing was executed as an exact copy of the room, the room that was being copied would turn it into something else; another room created by us, indeed close to the original, but never quite fitting together. In spite of the fact that the drawing was in a three-dimensional space (that of the original; the exhibition room), it would never be possible actually to have the visual experience of being in this "other" space; our drawn space. The molded thin lines-invisible at a distance-unfolded a space that could not be immediately recognized and understood visually, since the perspective would never fit when seen in three dimensions, but only captured mentally through a closer reading. Running perpendicular on each wall, the drawing would not form a shadow of the original that could be seen in its entirety and understood from one certain point of view, but rather resemble the de-centralized, fragmented echoes of many voices with no central point of origin and no definite end.