MOVABLES April 2 – June 6, 2004 www.galerieimtaxispalais.at The installation The Petrified Forest (2001/2004) by Jimmie Durham responds to the architectural setting of the hall in the basement. The “Petrified Forest” is made up of office furniture such as cabinets and desks as well as office equipment, computers, fax machines, lamps, etc. over which Durham has poured layers and heaps of cement so that everything is only partly visible like after a landslide. The public is led through this “forest” on narrow paths. It is a forest that evokes a disconcerting catastrophic mood as well as a sense of anarchic liberation from the fully controlled everyday world of administration. foto: Jimmie Durham, The Petrified Forest, 2001/2004 next>>>