THE INACTIVE HAND - graduation show
wdka 2014

Featured in the 2014 'Eindexamenspecial' of Metropolis M

THE INACTIVE
HAND

text: Vincent van Velsen for Metropolis  M
translated by translate

Consisting of two floors,
a staircase and a balcony, the
installation by Rowan van As functions
as a meeting place. Inside,
there is an exhibition space,
outside there are murals that
refer to billboards. At the bottom of
the building is a soft drink
vending machine from the sixties. once
a device for the benefit of the
consumption of cola, now a deco
rative carrier of nostalgia without it
real function. Van As goes into it
the transient nature of
tie and function, in combination with
a critique of the constant emergency
case to be active and the coercion
have to consume. Ultimate sym-
bool of this is a sculpture of
an inactive hand; a strong visual
element that exceeds the construction
to work. Through a tap
flows of ranja from the index finger. From
As self-built a meeting
place, where consumption is true
remains possible, but not at the
married way. He speaks it here
given to people
work during their free time
consumer needs
see. Made with the installation
of residual products from the con-
he is trying to be a sumptive society
this compulsive activity against
to go, and the system temporarily silent
to lay.

Collection Frank Koolen