dyad

‘Dyad’ is an installation aiming to depict Hans Van Der Laan theory on architectonic space and human experience space. The aluminium cast stands for the dyad inside/outside, full/empty - which echoes the two space images - and the projection situates it in the bigger picture of nature. ‘We must imagine the architectonic space that comes into being artificially between walls as a sort of emptiness in relation to natural space. This emptiness is as it were subtracted by the spacing-apart of the walls from the homogeneous fullness of natural space, and suspended within it, like a bubble in water. Parallel with this conception we must look upon the human space that we experience around us as a fullness surrounded by emptiness; in this case natural space is an emptiness in relation to a space that we experience as fulness - not like a bubble in water, but like a drop of water in the air.’
 - Hans Van Der Laan, Architectonic Space. Aluminium cast, 37min archives clip projection.