Partition / 2015 / solo exhibition / Ellen de Bruijne Projects / Amsterdam - Partition was inspired by a commission for the new prison in Zaandam. For the commission, Kluiters was asked to find an artistic solution for a practical problem – adjusting viewpoints and blocking lines of sight to various courtyards. Despite inmates being able to look out over these spaces from their cell windows on all sides of the courtyards, they do not have access to them. The challenge was to provide the inmates with a view that was as spacious as possible, while preventing them from making potentially dangerous eye contact. Five objects divide the gallery space. Each object repeats the shape of a corner seen from a different angle. The strongly-accentuated lines of perspective draw one’s eye to various dead-end corners, from which there is no escape.
