A solo project at Galerie West in The Hague. Shortly before the gallery was to be renovated I made this final exhibition in the old building. The house had once been a hospice for people who had reached the end of the line in psychiatric treatment. The warren of decrepit little rooms, staircases, kitchens and corridors exuded a hallucinatory atmosphere. Based on the narratives embedded in these spaces, I composed the fictitious story of Jan and Archibald. In the exhibition you encountered the last remnants of their illegal residence in the gallery space. What remained showed that they were a couple that cheerfully drifted between human and the inhuman, but that the pair gradually withdrew, becoming a kind of playful pariahs.
The story took on the form of an installation using staged scenes. For this I incorporated existing artefacts and situations I encountered in the house, to which I added alienating ingredients. For the first time in the history of the gallery not just the exhibition spaces were utilized, but the whole building.