The installation is a replica of the exhibition space, formed in a so called Ames Room. An Ames room is constructed so that from one standpoint it appears to be an ordinary cubic-shaped room. However this is a trick of perspective, since the true shape of the room is trapezoidal. As a result of the optical illusion, a person standing in one corner appears to the observer to be a giant while the person standing in the other corner appears to be a dwarf. A person walking from one corner to the other appears to shrink and grow.
The piece was installed in the wake of the collapse of Iceland´s banking system. Thousands of people demonstrated each day infront of the parliament, leading to the government´s resignation. The installation questions the role of public art institutions and underlines their potential for being a place for debate and re-evaluation of the systems that we live in.
