Gregor Schneider: Weisse Folter / White Torture

I don't want to spoil it. Just one minute of something which you have to see in real: Some doors open, some doors don't at Düsseldorf's museum "The Kunstsammlung" which presents a new ensemble of ("creepy") rooms specially created by German artist Gregor Schneider. A series of rooms -- accessible to the exhibition-goer -- has been built into the existing architecture of the museum: long corridors and confined cells equally reminiscent of intensive care wards and isolation units, of protection and confinement, that can be read either as zones of extra attentive care or of social and sensory deprivation. Individual rooms call to mind prison cells, interrogation rooms, holding areas or exercise tracts under constant surveillance. The artistic strategy of doubling and replication, that is fundamental to Gregor Schneider's work, is in evidence here. The exhibition is a response to images circulating on the Internet of the United States' maximum security facility Camp V at Guantánamo Bay on Cuba, a 'no-man's-land that is shielded as far as possible from the public gaze. The title of the exhibition also references the secret and the clandestine. 'White torture', also known as 'clean torture', is used of methods that are designed to destroy a person's mind without leaving any external evidence and hence extremely hard to prove.

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• Art
• Schneider
• Dusseldorf
• Guantánamo
• Torture

[exportiertes]

I like the arrow on the ground. Does it point to Mekka like the original arrow at Camp V, or to Hamburg to Schneiders other exhibition "Hommage an Malewitsch"? Anyway, since you have so few information in this rooms you start to concentrate on this little symbol on the ground.

I'm very sad that I didn't have enough time to stay there. And it was also not good to meet another person, because you suddenly feel more comfortable. Try to be alone in this work! It's an interesting experience.

[nescioquis]

As I read in an interview with Schneider in the new edition of german art paper "kunstforum" the arrows actually really point to Mekka.

[Hirnduebel]

It was the first of Schneider's installations I visited, I am lucky to live in Düsseldorf where it's located and I will go there again before it's over, also because I think I missed a lot on my first visit. I think it stays there until the 14th of July

Schneider himself seems to be a very strange person, my arts teacher told me he met him years ago on an exhibition and almost got in a fight with him cause he was just standing close to him, saying "I know your girlfriend" over and over again

[TamaraAndTheDemon]

Bhurrr- don't think i could walk down that corridor on me own....watch tooooo many horrid films, lol

[BrownEyedGirl2222]

that made me jump

[aunaunaunaun]

it s great !! I was there.

[JulieKroko]

i just went today to a little "labirint" of this artist in paris, i've never been so scared in my life!

[daSteff]

Gregor Schneider is a asshole