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Pinksummer Gallery, Genoa, 2003

The gallery was divided into an exhibition space and an office, each having a separate entrance. There were thus two possible trajectories leading into the exhibition space: either by the elevator or by the stairs through the office. A plywood tunnel, gradually shrinking in size, protruded from the office into the exhibition space ending in a glass capsule. All other doors connecting the two spaces were locked, so that the gallery was literally cut in two: people arriving at the gallery from the stairs were separated from those arriving with the elevator. If you belonged to the first group you would enter the tunnel and reach the inside of the glass capsule. If you belonged to the second group, you entered the exhibition space and saw the exterior of the tunnel.