»Death Box«, 2004
Installation for the exhibition »space camp«, Prague
Material: wood, plasterboard, bed, coffin, neon lights
The »Death Box« was a freestanding white cube measuring 3 meters on each side. The cube was positioned near a corner in a larger basement vault, fully accessible. On the two sides of the cube that were facing the open space a bed and a coffin stuck into the cube. In the opposite corner a hole in the wall allowed the viewer to look inside the brightly lit cube. The coffin that broke into the cube from the outside now emerged as a bed into the inside of the cube and vice versa.
The »Death Box« is a compression of thoughts and connotations about the relationship of death, sleep, sex and violence, which are probably some of the most ambigiuous human conditions and beyond any control.
Considering the various approaches of human cultures on those subjects, the visual impact of the work was kept quite simple. Its perception however, cannot force simple conclusions.
