Opera Aperta / Loose Work raised the issue as to whether the notion of national representation and national identity, so intrinsic to the history of the Venice Biennale, can be reinterpreted through the notion of community. And it considers whether this issue can be related to the cultural infrastructure that characterizes the Netherlands to a significant degree.
By translating the notion of cultural infrastructure into 'community', the foundations are laid for a collective approach and resulting exhibition model, which has become the framework for several new works by individual participants. The realized exhibition model can best be described as a 1:1 model in which the pavilion built by architect Rietveld has been completely incorporated.
