Michiel Kluiters

The work of Michiel Kluiters (Amsterdam, 1971) deals with architectural constructions that are linked to the psychological observational condition within the public sphere. In his installations Kluiters employs the existing (exhibition) architecture as a container of time and space in a visual, and often monumental manner.

In early works, wall-filling photographs of vacant architectural interiors were presented in order to function as a blank screen for the viewer's temporal projections. In order to evoke a specific physical relationship towards the work, generic spaces were constructed around one camera's central viewpoint. The resulting photograph acts as an intervention into a site-specific location.

From this working process, developments have incorporated video and large scale architectural constructions that enable the observer to participate with shifting positions of looking, standing and moving. Most of the works are temporary site-specific interventions that profoundly change the way that a visitor perceives the place.

By duplicating specific architectural realities or by creating the illusion of multiple spaces within a space, he emphasizes the historical layers of a given context and questions the supposed neutrality of the space as such.