Display challenges Tanya Barson, Curator I think it’s a piece that presented a number of challenges on different levels. One of which is just the very fact of viewing the work – viewing the object, the architectural model which is displayed on a table – and we were wondering about how people would be able to see this properly and adequately – it has a great deal of detail in it. But because the table has to be at a very particular height, and that can’t be altered, in a way it defeats the object it defeats the object if you alter it anyway, because the gradient to which the scaffolding appears would push the viewer further away so you don’t gain anything by lowering the model to be able to see inside. We wanted to find out, if there were any ways of giving the viewer a better view especially maybe viewers in wheelchairs – and howpeople could get closer to the work. So we went through a number of different possibilities – of maybe creating a platform that would give you a higher view point, or a ramp, or something like that. But none of them seemed very satisfactory, so in the end what we chose to do was a rather simple option was to show the film again on a monitor on the wall, so at least one could see the essence of what was being projected inside the model, if one was not able to have a perfect viewpoint inside the piece. And I think maybe there are other options. The work was lent to a prize exhibition in Monaco, where all of the titles appeared on the wall of an adjacent space, so that there was an opportunity to read all of the titles of the films that were included in the piece – written on the walls. So that’s another option. Or another option is to produce a booklet of those – that list of titles. |