Facades
The Museum van Loon is a 17th Century canal house in Amsterdam. The van Loon's converted the house to a museum after three generations of their family had lived there.
The exhibition consisted of three installations, each made specifically for one of the house-museum's three bedrooms.
Facades | Unmade
Performance and Photo-Installation. Photograph: 110 x 110cm.
Museum Van Loon curator Tonko Grever and artist Jill Magid sleep
for one night in the museum's Master Bedroom. May 7th, 2001.
The photograph of Tonko and Jill in bed replaced a portrait of one of the Van Loon couples who had once occupied this bedroom. Pajamas worn on the night of May 7th were left in the room.
Facades | The Small Bedroom
Photo Performance, Installation of 9 photographs. Dimensions ranging 120cm to 25cm.
In The Small Bedroom the artist replaced the room's portrait paintings
of the Van Loon Family with photographs of the museum staff members.
The staff wore robes she made for them from the same material that covers the room's interior.
Facades | Nightfall
DVD, edited from museum's CCTV footage, voiceover. 7 min.
Nightfall was made from the museum's surveillance footage
taken the night when the artist and curator slept in the Master Bedroom.
The footage montages time-lapse images from four of the museum's rooms,
including the Master Bedroom, where they were spending the night.