Luca Frei

Once again we have changed the means of communication But not their content, 2006–2007

Chamber of Industry and Commerce Cologne, Unter Sachsenhausen 10–26, Mon–Fri 8:00 am – 7:00 pm

The installations by Swiss artist Luca Frei (*1976) explore the 
fine line between public and private expression and modes of action, generating their own possible spaces where the strict separation of these two spheres is productively overcome. His modular wooden system consists of different modernist, geometric objects which could function as 
a flight of stairs, a bookshelf, or a chair, and thus follows a line of open-ended, associative possibilities. The work’s potential indeterminacy is increased by the way the elements are casually distributed throughout the semi-public passageways of the service center at the Chamber of Commerce in Cologne: Some elements are placed in prominent positions and invite use, while others are surprising, apparently forgotten 
in the peripheral corners and ends of the corridors. In this way, Frei appropriates ordinary paths and activities for his interactively oriented system, which both 
uses and disturbs the institutional space.