Thru boxes
Installation
2008

Noren market is an old traditional market in Okinawa, Japan, one does not see often anymore.
Most of these traditional markets have been replaced by malls. And the old Noren Market is in danger as well.
At Noren Market everything has its place and function, there is nothing superfluous. What I was impressed by is how the packaging of
vegetable and fruit is used. These boxes, crates and containers are visibly everywhere, being re-appropriated and recycled in a special
sense: They are being used for the display of products, as tables, chairs or storage containers or, completely disassembled, used as signs
or for the covering of walls. These containers and boxes have a special value. You would notice the signs "Please don't take these boxes"
all around Noren Market. My work is built of many of these boxes that are so symbolic for the Noren Market. It is placed in the middle of
the hustle and bustle of the market and allows for different sights, perspectives, visions, views, insights and foresights. It has been created
together with the sellers at Noren Market who have presented me with a cardboard box. How will it be used in the future? Perhaps the work
will be re-appropriated as well? In the late evening Noren Market closes its boxes.

'thru boxes' transformed: Build of another material and installed into another place.

susanne schuricht

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