That's the title of this sculpture at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park by Aeneas Wilder. It's an auto-destructive artwork described like this on the YSP website "Untitled # 155 was conceived especially for Longside Gallery and took nearly 200 hours to construct through the careful placement and balance of around 10,000 uniform lengths of Iroko wood, destined for parquet flooring. The work both references and challenges architectural space by providing an enclosed, seemingly safe structure for visitors to inhabit, but one that is loaded with the potential energy of collapse.
Wilder’s practice is rooted in the process and possibility of construction and the experience of the viewer. Working for days, the act of placing becomes a rhythmic labour, the structure gradually becoming apparent. Each work is completed through a ‘kick down’, a powerful act that brings the structure crashing systematically to the floor. A UK first, the kick down for Untitled # 155
takes place on 3 November."
Honestly, I was quite nervous of either me or the kids accidentally knocking it all down like a massive tower of jenga blocks!
