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Preface
Admission
Works




"The Invention of Morel"
"Neo Prajna-Paramita-Sura"
"Experience in Material No.39 Biblioteca"
"The Book from the Sky "
Participation Artist's
Related Events




Artists' Talk 9 / 18 (Fri.)
Artists' Talk 9 / 25 (Fri.)
Artists' Talk 10 / 2 (Fri.)
Artists' Talk 10 / 10 (Sat.)
Film Showing
Catalog

September 18 (Friday) - October 25 (Sunday), 1998 [Finished] Gallery A, D, Theater





Works


"Experience in Material No.39 Biblioteca"
1998
SUZUKI Ryoji





The library building is the work of Ryoji SUZUKI. It features L-shaped ("L" stands for Library) halls or aisles that are supported by thin columns. The long floor rises towards the back, then drops onto the short floor. The space is barely large enough for a person to crawl through. As the ceiling (roof) is horizontal while the floor rises, the space underneath the floor is higher towards the back. Therefore, if a person manages to craw through the opening to the short hall and reaches the entrance to the long hall through the pillars under the floor, he would have the same physical experience. Inside becomes outside and outside becomes inside. It is a Klein bottle or what Jacques Lacan calls a structure of the self.