Free Palestine

Collaboration with Pedro Rogado
Centro Cultural de Belém, 2002

The galleries consisted of a series of white cubes, with low ceilings, connected by a long corridor. Behind a hollow plywood wall we discovered a door leading onto a technical room. 

For the exhibition we removed the plywood wall and opened the door behind it thereby exposing the inside of the technical room. 

Free Palestine thus alluded to the setting it attempted but failed to escape. This failure was emphasized by the security requirement to use museum pinnacles to delimit the viewer’s spatial positioning inside the technical room. The effect of the pinnacles was to bring the technical room (even if uncomfortably) back into the museum’s grammar.

 
photos: Dulce Fernandes