Installation: 3 shelves, wood (mdf), paint, glue, found objects, video and color print on cardboard
255x181x46 cm
Exhibited at KHM Gallery for the BFA exhibition
The original installation and its shelves no longer exist.
Three custom shelf pieces, each of them in the measurement 181 x 86 x 48 cm, the father’s height and age, three times on top of each other. On one side the youngest daughter has painted a version of the flowers he would decorate his letters with. On the back of the shelves is a chart with titles for each of the 48 compartments of the three shelves.
Collecting and realizing the art ideas and persona of Ihra Lill’s father. Separated into “Reconstructed Works” and “touched objects”, including titles and listing of the object on a chart on the back of the shelf set. The sizes of each of the compartments are custom to the objects and ideas they hold. The result is a mix between the artist and the father and is left as a monument of an artist that never existed.
White shelves: Miniature “white cubes” or exhibition compartments with interpretations of more or less advanced ideas for conceptual art that the father planned or talked about throughout his eldest daughter's time. Freely reimagined by Ihra Lill.
Examples: Separate compartments holding two of the artist's tripod crutches with braided multicoloured strings attached, and a round clock in the middle, all three compartments titled: “Teaching craft/Understanding Time I, II and III (1992)” - An interpretation of how the father would force his two daughters to learn two things at the same time.
The video, originally shown on a small small monitor in one of the white shelves, titled Compilation 1962-2010: 8 minutes that includes the last interview of the father, scenes and clips that represents truths and lies he told during his lifetime.
Green shelves: Collection of different objects that were touched by the father at some point.
Examples: A pair of coffee stained, white, woolen, long underpants. A piece of carpet that he slept on, belonging to his oldest daughter's room. Two photos attached on standing photo clips, two portraits of the father, with his scrambling writings in the back: "After about 2 mnds, pro stunt man took the photo 'n sent it from New Zeland. "No problem sir. <3greetings Kay". "I have found a place where we all can live. Remember, secret where I am", placed in front of a cracked mirror (see photo detail).
A complete list of all the titles, plus image descriptions will be available soon.
