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Your House, 2006 - Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York 2006 - Photo: Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
Your House, 2006
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York 2006
Photo: Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
Your House, 2006 - Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York 2006 - Photo: Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
Your House, 2006
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York 2006
Photo: Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
Your House, 2006 - Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York 2006
Your House, 2006
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York 2006
Your House, 2006 - Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York 2006
Your House, 2006
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York 2006
Spread from TYT (Take Your Time) Vol. 1: Small Spatial Experiments, edited by Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin 2007
Spread from TYT (Take Your Time) Vol. 1: Small Spatial Experiments, edited by Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin 2007
This film is a meditation by SHIMURAbros on Eliasson’s work ‘Your House’. This book, commissioned by the Library Council of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, consists of a laser-cut negative impression of Eliasson’s house in Copenhagen on a scale of 85:1. Designed and realised by Michael Heimann and Claudia Baulesch, the book is based on a computer-generated model of the house, sliced vertically into 454 even parts. Each of the corresponding 454 hand-bound leaves (or 908 pages) is individually cut and corresponds to 2.2 cm of the actual house. As readers leaf through the pages, they have the illusion of slowly making their way through the rooms of the house from front to back, thus constructing a mental and physical narrative. The result is an intensified sense of space, dimensions, materiality, and time.

SHIMURAbros are the filmmaking siblings Yuka and Kentaro Shimura. Their work has been exhibited worldwide at venues such as the National Arts Center, Tokyo; the National University of Singapore’s Centre for the Arts, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei; The Hessel Museum of Art and CCS Bard Galleries in New York; the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts; and Museums Quartier, Vienna.
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Your House, 2006. X-ray film by SHIMURAbros (front view)
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A commission by the Library Council of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, NY, USA, Your House is a limited-edition artist's book by Eliasson with a laser-cut negative impression of his house in Copenhagen, Denmark. Each of the 454 pages is individually cut and corresponds to 2.2 cm of the actual house. As readers leaf through the pages, they slowly make their way through the rooms of the house from front to back, thus constructing a mental and physical narrative.

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Title

 Your House

Year

 2006

Materials

 Artist's book
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