DUBLINESCA, 2012
The bunk beds and books refer to the artist’ s TH. 2058 project, first exhibited at the Tate Modern’ s Turbine Hall in 2008 – 2009 that imagined domestic spaces in a dystopian post-apocalyptic world and filled that hall entirely with of such beds. It takes its name from Enrique Vila Matas’ Dublinesca, the novel that was published after the exhibition closed, narrating the author’ s visit to TH. 2058. It is displayed on some of the bunk beds. Before, in his contribution to TH. 2058, a book designed like a science fiction novel, which was also the catalogue for the TH. 2058 exhibition at the Turbine Hall, Vila-Matas had described the exhibition even before having seen it as follows:“ On every bunk there is at least one book, a book that has survived the humidity thanks to modern corrective treatments(...) Iʼm imagining, says the voice-over,‘ that the end of the summer has arrived and that I‘ m going to London to see in the Turbine Hall what the city will be like in 2058.”
Dublinesca( Installation), 2012 4 bunk beds( 3 blue, 1 yellow), 8 books Exhibition view, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. 1887 – 2058, Centre Pompidou, 2015
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