The Same Room, 2022
INSTALLATION AND BACKSTAGE PHOTOS
wood, carpet, furniture, lights, clothes, personal items
installation: 220x366x366 cm
installation: 220x366x366 cm
The Same Room is a multi-media installation, consisting of an installation, paintings and a sculpture. The work explores how human emotions and traumas are interwoven with architectural spaces. In The Same Room, the emotional impact is depicted through water, as it shows a bedroom in which a flood has taken place. Here, Kersten focuses on the sense of calm during a disaster, which may be detached, political, ecological or else very personal. The room is quiet, but bears witness: something happened here.
The installation is staged into detail, presenting the private realm of a character that has left it behind. A visitor moving through the installation might have the experience of a trespasser, archeologist or a reader. Moving through the traces of other peoples existences, one tries to understand what have cau- sed the emptiness and conditions that may have shaped the inhabitants live.