Lego Homines
Installation
lego bricks
118 x 65 cm
solo exhibition
De Aanschouw, Rotterdam/The Netherlands
March 18 - 25 2011
Lego Homines is made for the presentation window at the facade of De Schouw, in wich each week another artist is invited to show a work.
De Schouw is an old fashioned pub at the Witte de Withstraat, one of the most lively streets in Rotterdam, and shows a nice cross section of the people living in the city.
For Lego Homines (translated: I count the people) I have been counting the passers by in front of De Schouw for four hours on a regular tuesday afternoon.
I then categorized the passers by in four categories: white men, white women, coloured men and coloured women. A distinctive colour Lego brick was assigned to each of the categories.
Simply following the order in which the people came by, the window was filled with lego bricks, starting from the lower left corner, working its way up to the upper right corner.
Met dank aan de legostenenverstrekkers: Annelies, Bima, Theo, Maarten, Bernadette, Sterre, Marlies, Martijn
foto's 1 en 3: Walter Birkhoff
foto's 2 en 4: Guus Vreeburg