“A large ensemble” is a room-spanning installation that extends from floor to ceiling, from wall to wall. It consists of collected objects in the shape of pins, rods or sticks, such as curtain rods, rulers, fishing rods, walking sticks, pens, oars, branches, broomsticks, drumsticks, bicycle pumps, car aerials....
All of these items are collected in the small town of Ebersberg and the surrounding area from private households or offices, workshops or government offices, from garages, cellars and storerooms or drawers, where they often wait for years to be disposed of or given a second life. They are objects that represent both the places and their inhabitants and symbolically show the district in the exhibition rooms as a cohesive community. A large ensemble is a concentrated geography made up of individual parts coming from all directions.
Each individual object is a potential carrier and fragment of an individual history, whether trivial or serious, forgotten or generally known. They form a heterogeneous ensemble that symbolically quotes the people of Ebersberg and materializes them as a complex, here harmonious and there contradictory community. The visitors to the exhibition are both viewers and part of the construction: their “participation” is the poetic essence of the installation.
Photos : Jan Kopp
All of these items are collected in the small town of Ebersberg and the surrounding area from private households or offices, workshops or government offices, from garages, cellars and storerooms or drawers, where they often wait for years to be disposed of or given a second life. They are objects that represent both the places and their inhabitants and symbolically show the district in the exhibition rooms as a cohesive community. A large ensemble is a concentrated geography made up of individual parts coming from all directions.
Each individual object is a potential carrier and fragment of an individual history, whether trivial or serious, forgotten or generally known. They form a heterogeneous ensemble that symbolically quotes the people of Ebersberg and materializes them as a complex, here harmonious and there contradictory community. The visitors to the exhibition are both viewers and part of the construction: their “participation” is the poetic essence of the installation.
Photos : Jan Kopp
