Bonner Bouncer

2024

Galvanized steel, PVC, foam board

Exhibited at Bundeskunsthalle – Bonn, Germany for Interactions 2024

This rooftop installation presents a series of doors that, when opened, limit the opportunity to exit until one reaches the very end of the L-shaped row. It operates as a kind of rabbit hole, inviting individuals into its mechanism only to confine them within its own logic, encapsuling the tumble of life, suggesting endless new thresholds to cross while remaining trapped within the course of life itself.

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.