Bouncer

2014

The concept behind "Bouncer" is elegantly simple; it presents a series of doors that, when opened, limit the opportunity to exit until reaching the very end of the row. It operates as a kind of rabbit hole, inviting individuals into its mechanism only to confine them within its own logic. Expanding on the notion of a rabbit hole, the physical experience proposed by "Bouncer" resonatesthe act of clicking through computer screen windows, browsing and scrolling through pages and profiles.

Like an elementary stop-motion film or a thumb-cinema, a dot on the first door, becomes a full-color surface at the end (or in reverse order, depending on which direction one enters). This progression suggests there is a destination to travel towards (or depart from), as well as further highlighting a physical progression in space and time.

On a more musical and rhythmical plane, the work offers a percussion-like experience, akin to a pattern of a drum computer or of playing a drumroll. Its sequence consists of two alternating and engulfing beats, that hinge in the middle.