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The installation of Gonçalo Sena, minimal and suggestive, was perhaps the most tentative (in the sense of indefinite, surrounding an experience). The Portuguese artist had changed the project room into a stage for looking and sensing. People were invited to enter a minimalistic structure that resembled a fence such as you find in nature reserves and that offer a view at the landscape. In this case there was nothing to see behind the fence except for a white wall. On the right side of the structure, a slide was projected of a site at Olkhon where we according to the legend find the remnants of a wall that separated profane from sacred land. On the left side of the structure, ice minerals and melting ice had been put on a clay tablet, as indexes of natural processes that take their own time.
As a total this constellation was quite enigmatic, but knowing what the artist had done on Olkhon setting out on various quests of the island, the viewer could as it were identify with his searchings. To me this work felt quite romantic, I sensed the mind of a wanderer who invites the viewer to join him and come to a place that raises our expectations but suspends the wonderful view.
