Prix de Rome
Public Cube was developed during the Prix de Rome, the oldest and most generous prize for talented artists and architects in the Netherlands.

Temporary Installation in public space
location: Schiphol Airport / the Netherlands
material: wood / paint / security glass / curtain
size: 226 x 420 x 280 cm
year: 2003

Public Cube is a temporary installation designed for the public space of Schiphol Airport, which was developed during a period of three months for the Prix de Rome. The white cube is installed in the Arrival Hall 2 at the spot where travellers are awaited by friends and family. Visitors can enter this cube by passing through a curtain at the backside. Once inside they can sit on a bench from which they can observe from behind a glass window the travellers entering the country. From this perspective, the arriving travellers appear as if in a decor, isolated from their actual environment while the sliding door through which they pass suggests a part of a proscenium through which they appear on a stage. A reversal from this perspective is offered for those arriving of those waiting who appear as a formal image framed by the white frame of the cube. In this way the duality of waiting and arriving becomes through the imposition of a frame, concentrated into rhyming spatial images. Public Cube is a monument for an invisible frontier found in a specific public space, the airport, which is in fact an in between space, a non-site, but also a space in which definitive borders are drawn.

Thanks to: Prix de Rome, Chris Vonk, Schiphol Airport, Lada Hršak

Prix de Rome
Public Cube was developed during the Prix de Rome, the oldest and most generous prize for talented artists and architects in the Netherlands.

Temporary Installation in public space
location: Schiphol Airport / the Netherlands
material: wood / paint / security glass / curtain
size: 226 x 420 x 280 cm
year: 2003

Public Cube is a temporary installation designed for the public space of Schiphol Airport, which was developed during a period of three months for the Prix de Rome. The white cube is installed in the Arrival Hall 2 at the spot where travellers are awaited by friends and family. Visitors can enter this cube by passing through a curtain at the backside. Once inside they can sit on a bench from which they can observe from behind a glass window the travellers entering the country. From this perspective, the arriving travellers appear as if in a decor, isolated from their actual environment while the sliding door through which they pass suggests a part of a proscenium through which they appear on a stage. A reversal from this perspective is offered for those arriving of those waiting who appear as a formal image framed by the white frame of the cube. In this way the duality of waiting and arriving becomes through the imposition of a frame, concentrated into rhyming spatial images. Public Cube is a monument for an invisible frontier found in a specific public space, the airport, which is in fact an in between space, a non-site, but also a space in which definitive borders are drawn.

Thanks to: Prix de Rome, Chris Vonk, Schiphol Airport, Lada Hršak

Prix de Rome
Public Cube was developed during the Prix de Rome, the oldest and most generous prize for talented artists and architects in the Netherlands.

Temporary Installation in public space
location: Schiphol Airport / the Netherlands
material: wood / paint / security glass / curtain
size: 226 x 420 x 280 cm
year: 2003

Public Cube is a temporary installation designed for the public space of Schiphol Airport, which was developed during a period of three months for the Prix de Rome. The white cube is installed in the Arrival Hall 2 at the spot where travellers are awaited by friends and family. Visitors can enter this cube by passing through a curtain at the backside. Once inside they can sit on a bench from which they can observe from behind a glass window the travellers entering the country. From this perspective, the arriving travellers appear as if in a decor, isolated from their actual environment while the sliding door through which they pass suggests a part of a proscenium through which they appear on a stage. A reversal from this perspective is offered for those arriving of those waiting who appear as a formal image framed by the white frame of the cube. In this way the duality of waiting and arriving becomes through the imposition of a frame, concentrated into rhyming spatial images. Public Cube is a monument for an invisible frontier found in a specific public space, the airport, which is in fact an in between space, a non-site, but also a space in which definitive borders are drawn.

Thanks to: Prix de Rome, Chris Vonk, Schiphol Airport, Lada Hršak

Prix de Rome
Public Cube was developed during the Prix de Rome, the oldest and most generous prize for talented artists and architects in the Netherlands.

Temporary Installation in public space
location: Schiphol Airport / the Netherlands
material: wood / paint / security glass / curtain
size: 226 x 420 x 280 cm
year: 2003

Public Cube is a temporary installation designed for the public space of Schiphol Airport, which was developed during a period of three months for the Prix de Rome. The white cube is installed in the Arrival Hall 2 at the spot where travellers are awaited by friends and family. Visitors can enter this cube by passing through a curtain at the backside. Once inside they can sit on a bench from which they can observe from behind a glass window the travellers entering the country. From this perspective, the arriving travellers appear as if in a decor, isolated from their actual environment while the sliding door through which they pass suggests a part of a proscenium through which they appear on a stage. A reversal from this perspective is offered for those arriving of those waiting who appear as a formal image framed by the white frame of the cube. In this way the duality of waiting and arriving becomes through the imposition of a frame, concentrated into rhyming spatial images. Public Cube is a monument for an invisible frontier found in a specific public space, the airport, which is in fact an in between space, a non-site, but also a space in which definitive borders are drawn.

Thanks to: Prix de Rome, Chris Vonk, Schiphol Airport, Lada Hršak