Footnotes to Beauty and the Right to the Ugly was the first articulationation of an experimental work which took ‘t Karregat, a multifunctional neighbourhood center in Eindhoven, as its protagonist.
‘t Karregat, designed by the architect Frank Van Klingeren and completed in 1974, was planned in a district of new housing meant for an alternative middle class in Eindhoven. ‘t Karregat was an experimental design where different activities and functions –a library, two schools, a café, a health center, a supermarket and communal area– were connected under the same superstructure without walls to separate them. Before the main work, Beauty and the Right to the Ugly, was completed, the foootnotes were already announcing some of the issues in small moments and gestures.

Footnotes to Beauty and the Right to the Ugly consists of three small video projection structures, a wall print and some drawings, and exists independent of the larger installation.


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Installation view at Wilfried Lentz Rotterdam, 2014