Shared Space, 2007

Shared Space is a project i did together with Frank Bruggeman for Tent and Witte de With.
Tent and Witte De With are two art foundations and exhibition spaces that share a building in Rotterdam. In between their offices they have one mutual room of which they both have the right to use but up to september 2007 it didn't really have a function. They invited us to come up with a use for it and together, Frank and I made it part office and part living room. Frank took care of the office part and made a impressive blue shelving unit with a paper shredder and some other stuff he collected from both the art institutions offices. He also put down an oversized flower container with a few typical office plants that for once actually look nice. My part was made up by my and extra large sofa with pillows filled with beanbag material and covers made out of a patchwork of fabrics I collected over the past few years. The secondhand carpet got an extra pattern of colored stripes made by melting colored duct-tape into it. The room was situated on the first floor and to keep in touch with the ground level and entrance the tree in front of the window got a big mirror that gave a perfect view on the front door form the sofa.