Steps, a white corridor, around the corner on the right another, longer corridor, another right turn, another corridor, even longer, also white. A situation like in a dream, with no spatial or temporal coordinates, no pointers to the place, no windows or doors, no end to the corridors – Loop is continuous.
Monika Sosnowska created the work for the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein. The Polish artist (b. 1972) first examined and analysed both the inside and outside of the museum together with Christian Kerez, one of the building's architects, and then designed the installation, which takes up the whole of the upper floor. The museum building, by architects Morger, Degelo and Kerez, uses the formal idiom of Classical Modernism while at the same time providing an unusual sequence of rooms. Sosnowska takes up these aspects of the building, reinterprets and drastically exaggerates them. She transforms the neutral rooms into corridors with no reference to their function, goal or location. She adapts the geometrically clear and restrained formal vocabulary to an expressionistic ground plan with acute angles and sharp corners. Movement around the building is determined by an endless circle – a loop.
Sosnowska creates a provocatively new spatial reality. She construes a physically real situation. The visitors are given nothing familiar to latch onto and as a result focus on their sense perception. Movement in three-dimensional space becomes movement in spiritual, emotional spaces. Sosnowska's Loop renders visitors sensitive to the conscious experience of their surroundings and thereby to their own feeling for space.
The exhibition was curated for the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein by Adam Budak, curator of the Kunsthaus Graz.
