The sculpture Black Corridor was specially conceived in relation to the dimensions of the space that I had been assigned to me, and it blocked the depth of the space. The sculpture consists of two rectangular steel frames, six meters in length and 1.80 meters high. The two screens are set parallel to each other and three meters apart. A grid of 45 black plastic bands (type used for securing packing cases and industrial packaging) is stretched across one of the screens. The ends of the bands hang loose at the edges, run along the walls lengthwise and are finally stretched over the second screen. The result is that a space of three meters by six meters is blocked off, and one cannot go through it without destroying it.
The sculpture is placed at the entrance to a space that is six meters wide, so that it blocks the entrance. The distance between the two frames depends on the depth of the space in which the sculpture is shown (In Munich, where Black Corridor was presented for the first time, the exhibition room was six meters wide and eleven meters deep ; the two frames were placed two meters fifty apart).
The space that the sculpture closes off behind is visible through the wide grid formed by the horizontal lines of the bands which are stretched between the two frames. One could imagine the sculpture being extended all the way through the space, but even if one frame were pushed to the very edge of the room, the loose bands along the long sides of the walls would never become taut. Stretched out full length, they are thirty meters long. I have never imagined this sculpture in an enormous space.
Two closed spaces are visible : there is the one that the sculpture defines as a corridor, and seen through this first one there is the space in which the sculpture Corridor is exhibited. As it is set up, it seems as though the sculpture were the outcome of some past act, the ghost of a sculpture that is to be imagined somewhere other than where it is viewed.