Angeline Dekker - Concrete without Essence

Date: 19 October thru 30 November 2008
Location: Project space Toussaintkade 55
Opening: Saturday 18 October, 5 pm

Transforming, dismantling and covering are keywords in the vocabulary of Angeline Dekker (1967, The Hague). She prefers to work in unoccupied buildings, jerking loose walls, floors and doors in order to build her fragile constructions.

Angeline Dekker views buildings as entities subject to time, or even mortality. Through her pieces and interventions in existing spaces, she tries to remove the seeming stability of the space and to expose the vulnerability of the supposed unchangeable stability of architecture. Not so much to expose a process of decay, but to allow the building to be perceived as a ‘grotesque delicacy'.
 
The installation by Angeline Dekker runs parallel to the exhibition ‘Since we last spoke about monuments'. Both deal with the passing of time in relation to buildings and monuments which seemingly conquer time.