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Alba D'Urbano «Esposizione Impraticabile»
Alba D'Urbano, «Esposizione Impraticabile», 1996
Photograph: Nicolas Reichelt | © Alba D'Urbano
This room in the cellar of the INM is not accessible to the public, and is seen only by cameras. It forms the centre of the exhibition. In the form in which it is shown, the installation refers to its surroundings and forces viewers to address the technology that conveys it. Thus the absent work of art moves through the institute's technical facilities as an obsessively repeated reality alienated by the media, making the place of production itself into a universal work of art.


 
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Categories: Installation

Keywords: Closed-Circuit | Concept | Space

Works by Alba D'Urbano:

Hautnah


Frankfurt/Main | Germany
 

 Alba D'Urbano
«Esposizione Impraticabile»

The starting-point for this work is an exhibition of images that is not «practicable,» not accessible.
In the version called «In Vitro» for the Institut für Neue Medien (INM) in Frankfurt/M., the institute's rooms, techniques and reproduction resources were included in the show. Visitors could move through the different rooms as if they were going through the various stages of a prescribed route. Alongside the closed exhibition space, which had a remote-controlled camera at its centre, media representations of the pictures that could not be experienced directly could be seen. The ground plan of the Institut für Neue Medien (INM) shows the various exhibition rooms or studios.
Alba D'Urbano