Anya Gallaccio

'I will walk down to the end with you if you will come all the way with me' is a work that takes up the middle and back space of the gallery. It is a hand-knotted net made of hop rope that has been hung continuously in two rooms. Gallaccio examines with this work the potency of macramé, the craft of knotting rope or thread in patterns - as frequently employed in the seventies. This interest in knotting nets leads back to Anya’s previous exhibition in the gallery in 2003 for which she produced a golden fishing net and collaborated for that purpose with a fisherman from IJmuiden. This was an associative reference to the Golden Age, when Amsterdam with its figurative fish became rich and went through an economic and cultural bloom. Macramé to Gallaccio is an itself generating system of knots, with the possibility of infinite expansion. Gallaccio’s installation could also be considered as a homage to Duchamp’s chaotic installation “One Mile of String” for the exhibition “First Papers of Surrealism” in New York in 1942. Also Eva Hesse’s ‘hanging’ sculptures from the late sixties are called to mind.