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| "I still have the key- anyway it is still a good reason to never fully close a door; the coffee and you will be in the middle. You, you moved around, took away in between, close and far. Nowadays I start, and it ends in two different corners. Sometimes I feel a little bit sad about that. I’ve tried, but I don't know if this has (or maybe not precisely) to do with you. If it is in order to remind myself which day it is. In the end that is what they are for, you know. It would happen and it will happen, there is something happening, but it doesn’t have to happen."
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| The constellation is made out of a couple of works.
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| A white tabletop and a pair of trestles are leaning against a wall.
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| The tabletop and the trestles, which have been serving as a desk, have been transported from the studio to the exhibition space.
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| Which seems to be more a conceptual gesture than it is unpractical.
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| Right above the trestles a little postcard is pinned on the wall with two thin needles.
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| “you are not missing out on something”: is carefully written in small fragile letters by hand with the use of blue ink pen,
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| in this way the text speaks quite directly to the onlooker, but with a closer look one can see that the text is printed.
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| The text on the card seems to serve as a sort of reassurance, towards something not visible to the eye.
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| Furthermore to the right, quite high, compared to the other works, two photographs of a parrot are taped on the wall with the use of duct tape.
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| Next to the photographs are two doors leading outside to a green garden full of trees and plants.
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| The two photographs both show the same gray African parrot.
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| It seems that the artist intention was to place the photographs on the same height as if the parrots were up in a tree.
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| The parrot on the left has a lighter gradient than the one on the right, which is a lot darker and has more noise in it.
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| On the photographs wavy green lines are printed on them with use of paint. The lines look like waves, but the parrot is sitting in a tree.
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| All the things that are leaning or hanging on the wall are placed within a white outline of a square, which is painted on the wall.
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| This frame was already painted on the wall and served the artist as something given, working with the space that could go with the work.
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| On the ground is a little stack of postcards, which all have the same line of text on them, a little bit sad, because each card is repeating ‘as long as I have a job’.
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| The printed text is a combination of Dutch (zo lang ik maar) and English (as long if I), the handwriting added to it says “I have a job?”.
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| The text is taken out of a long list of subtitles for a film made out of slides with simply handwritten words or short sentences,
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| which are all dealing with consumption, advertising and exploitation.
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| In front of the wall, a mixture of copper and iron pins are thrown on the ground.
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| The pins cause a ambiguous situation, one hand they push the onlooker away from the work causing an obstruction.
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| On the other hand they do draw the attention of the onlooker, and made shift the view of the onlooker towards the ground and pull them closer to the work.
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