Senior center turned treehouse by Benjamin Verdonck
Antwerp-based theater director, writer and visual artist Benjamin Verdonck has developed the work 'vogelenzangpark 17bis' for art festival TRACK: a contemporary city conversation in ghent, belgium.
His newest environmental intervention artwork draws a subtle connection between old and young in the context of a close, yet inaccessible treehouse next to a senior activities center. the artist brings to the public space a housing component, partially obscured from view as it is placed within the branches of a tree outside this gathering area.
In vogelenzang park, the clubhouse for senior citizens, first built in the 1950's, has now received a replica of one of the segments which comprise this building nestled just in front of this social housing structure.
The almost-clone like building has been constructed at a ratio too small for human access and instead functions as an evocative work, imploring the viewer to combine facets of both his/her youthful and older realities, reflecting upon the notion of their current sense of self.
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