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Work Type:installation
Date of work:2007
Style Period:contemporary art
Description:
Selectors' Comments:
This is so small you could miss it, and so fragile you could wreck it accidentally before you realised. This slightness brings you into a very different physical relationship with it as art than the other works in the show. But it's also very endearing in a tragic kind of way, like an impossibly ambitious project set up by ants.


Artist's Statement:
This is an escape-machine which transforms a room into an automobile, only a few minutes after it has been installed. At this stage there are only two problems yet to be resolved:

a) It is not really working properly
b) you have to carry around with you the space you wish to escape from
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Source:"Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2007" exhibition catalogue
Date of source:2007