Opening : Wednesday 9 October at 6:30 p.m.
Exhibition : from 9 October 2024 to June 2025
Each year since 2011, CDH-Culture has invited an artist to present a work that relates to the Rolex Learning Center. This year, Delphine Reist will present an installation comprising fifty or so overturned builders’ buckets filled with fresh concrete. The concrete spills onto the floor in accordance with its specific viscosity. Overturned, these buckets lose their original purpose to become useless yet pleasant objects, echoing the materiality of the building.
The starting point of La Rampe is the amazing spatial experience offered by the Rolex Learning Center. Its interior projects us into an undulating landscape. The physical sensations are the same as those we experience when walking in nature. Yet here the landscape is nothing but concrete, glass, and carpeted valleys. We are filled with a hybrid hypnotic sensation, somewhere between walking across fields and strolling through an open-space office: a ‘landscaped office’, in the literal sense of the term. The Ramp is in no way an apology of the challenges of engineering technology, but rather an offbeat serial action: the overturning of rubber concrete-mixing buckets on the undulating floor of the building.
In May 2025, Delphine Reist will create a performance at the Rolex Learning Center using vacuum cleaners.
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---------------------------------------------------------------- The artist: Delphine Reist’s artistic research focuses on the world of work whether industrial, administrative or artisanal. She takes objects, techniques and tools specific to these different fields of activity and presents them to viewers with transformed functions and uses.
