The Cave
installation
2,5 x 3,75 x 2,5 m
plastic, wood, kite sticks, textile, styler foam balls
2009

This installation is made with blue plastic sheets containing a tent structure inside. It imitates a rock cave, and has a small dark hole in the front, which triggers the explorative spirit and curiosity of people to go inside. The hole continues as a narrow tunnel, leading to a soft womb-like pink place. This womb-like space releases the visitor from a tension undergone by crawling through a narrow tunnel.

 On the inside of the womb-like space, the pink color of its material is graded with many rings, getting darker towards a hole on the other side, in order to imply this as a target, an aiming point for departure. This exit is made with a stretchy textile, where the visitor’s experiences of pushing and stretching its rim to leave the cave remind them of being born as a baby or being expelled as feces.

By creating an experience for the audience with materials being used in the creation of temporary habitats in a harsh urban life context, the work explores illusions of escapism in relation to the borderline between desires and destructions.