Laurence Aegerter - Opening Soon / Opening Now

(November 2008 - November 2009)

I developed this project in a former brothel over a year time. To research the transitional character of the location, in between brothel and renovated house, I transformed the space successively into different public and semi-public functions: Public Library, Golf Club, Institute for Cultural Remembrance and Mnemonic Practices, Turkish Snack bar, Agnostic Temple, Symposium for Urban Investment, Public Swimming Pool and Anne Frank Museum, New Wing. The different functions resulted in installations, performances, videos an photographs.

Posters
A series of posters was developed for "Opening Soon / Opening Now" in collaboration with graphic designer Jennifer Skupin. These posters play a central part in the project. The posters inform the passers-by and emphasize the building's continual transformation by graphically showing the sequence of its different functions. Current information is alternately revealed. The series of 18 posters has been made into an edition of silkscreen prints.

poster swimming pool