It's Wood, Baby!

2 or 3 days before, it was still a mystery to all of us. What are Véronique Faucheur and Marc Pouzol going to do with the tons of wood they ordered from a hardware store and collected themselves at the riverbank in Hallein, we wondered.

Entering the Kunstraum pro arte last friday, the mystery still remained a bit as the main room of the gallery only showed a projection of Veronique, Marc and the students of their class at the Alte Saline gathering driftwood. Upon closer inspection of the ground, one could see a boardwalk made from linked-together square timber leading past the projection and inviting spectators to follow it. Upon doing so, one was led outside, into what was the heart of the project. Here the driftwood was reencountered, laid out left and right of the footpath, the naturally shaped wood flowing by the artifically shaped one. It was like the river had returned to land.

The exhibition will be running until the 3rd of august, with the gallery being open tuesday through friday from 4 to 9 pm and from 10 am to 1 pm every Saturday. The experience might be a bit less nice without Steve Mathewson and Thorsten Mächtel there to illustrate with their music as they did on opening night, but it will nevertheless be a fascinating experience to see this interesting garden. [mp]