Installation
2014
The Beginning and The End, installed at the Wisbech Museum as part of the installation On The Enclosure of Time, Wisbech, UK (2014)
The Beginning and The End draws on the language of museum display and consists of three large display cases containing volumes covered in blue felt. Instead of showcasing museum objects, these volumes remind us of abstracted exponential growth or degrowth models in statistics. It suggests an ending or beginning by conserving and enclosing these often digitally created statistical representations in a physical installation.
This installation is part of On The Enclosure of Time, a collection of 11 individual works within the installation that reference a range of diverse, urgent subjects such as the current economic crisis, ecological processes, and rhizomatic forms of knowledge distribution. Together, they propose strange and fantastical juxtapositions and create links with modernism, museum display, and the aesthetics and narratives of sci-fi.
The Beginning and The End
Materials: Afzelia wood, MDF, safety glass, blue felt, foam
Size: 240 cm. x 40 cm. x 40 cm.
On the Enclosure of Time
‘On the Enclosure of Time’ is one of the outcomes of ‘History Rising’, a subversive and engaging study of museum display in England, conceived and developed by Marjolijn Dijkman and curator Jes Fernie (2012 – 2015).
A publication on History Rising was published by Onomatopee in 2015.
