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The Locked Room, 2002-2009.

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Door on wall and vinyl lettering, dimensions variable. First presented in the Galerie Jan Mot in Brussels, 2002. A space to which only the artist has access. Visitors will find themself in front of closed doors. On a sign on the wall is written: "The key to the locked room belongs to Dora García. Unlocking and entering the room means destroying the work." The artist explains her intentions behind their work as follows: "My intention with The Locked Room is to build a space you cannot enter. To build a space that, by means of a compromise, an agreement, exists only on your mind. This agreement means that the person who owns the space must sacrifice a part of his own space to build this room no one can enter. The room is a mental space. It results from a subtraction instead of an addition, as it is usually the case with a work of art. The artist appropriates a portion of the house or the institution where the work is displayed. It is the opposite of the normal transaction in art buying: when a collector buys an artwork, he adds something to his patrimony; here, paradoxically, he subtracts something. In The Locked Room, the collector bans the access to a part of his own house, his own space, and surrenders that space to the artist, who receives as part of the deal the key of the locked door. This space is made inaccessible to everyone. This volume, this surface cannot be experienced physically anymore: and ideally, this room must exist forever."  (Dora García)

Links

Doragarcia.net | Galerie Michael Rein | Steal me Show | The artist without works (performance) | Further informations

Credits

All reproduktions are courtesy of the artist © Dora García