F/Vault (1991) Due to the fact that I do not believe in the historical figure of the artist as an autonomous, solipsistic working and almost autarkic person my work always relates to the environment it is shown in. Artwork has always been relational (but not in the sense of the relational aesthetics), either to its discursive appreciation or physical conditioned. In this case it was in an artist space residing in the old city walls of Nijmegen, Holland. This space looked as something in-between a dungeon or a basement. I used this phenomenon to make a work that contained a kind of hidden meaning. What you see are three identical 'windows' with marble glass punctured by large holes. Behind these screens there are two very realistic photographic reproductions of a vault and one genuine one.

The 'false' ones were made to replicate the real one and so challenging the presumed difference between 'real' and 'fictitious'.

This difference could not be perceived by sight.
















Actually the work is about the discrepancies between the different sensory perceptions that constitute an image of reality and its impossibility to create coherence between each other. And yet still we believe it does. That there are three 'modules' does not mean that I conform to the tradition of trinity thinking from which one can found so many examples in our culture but was mainly because of the architectural structure of the space.

Specifications: Size: 0.80m. by 0.40m. (3 x), wood, marble glass (punctured), genuine vault, two photographs of vault.

Exhibited: Virtu, Nijmegen, Holland, (1990) .