The sculpture presents the layout of a typical hotel room by extracting it from its context and shaping low walls, in order to give the elements for a reading. A hotel room is the result of a specific idea in the of use space. Everybody in the Western world knows how to use it. There is no need for directions. The work distorts the reference points and is mentally and physically upsetting, despite the fact that the outline and the size of the typical hotel room have been respected.
Apartment is a scenario-installation.
The intent of Apartment, representing our daily housing standard, is to provoke an encounter and challenge other highly structured architectures through various diplacements. Due to the transparent plexiglass, the gaze that attempts to read the layout constantly escapes, only to clash against the real walls which contain the work. The visitor is thus implicated within two plans at once, the one presented in the work and the other in which he or she is actually located. The height of the small walls also enables the visitor to physically extend his spine as if to express his pride. The body measures itself against one space, then, with the other, to grasp the limits that rearrange themselves on complex planes.