Non plus ultra, 1989

An assemblage of various materials, which can be related to the preparations for an exhibition, either overlap or cover each other to form a pile in precarious balance, rising up almost as far as the ceiling, or, as the title tells us: non plus ultra (nothing further beyond). Arranged on a packing crate on the ground, which serves as a support structure for the whole, are an upside-down table, a smaller crate, an upside-down chair, and a glass sheet, one on top of or inside the other. In between the legs of the table is a large stretcher, while a second stretcher, wedged inside a wooden structure, is kept in balance by a white-painted wooden base. Sticking out between the various objects are rolls or sheets of blank paper; another sheet is placed across the glass sheet at the top of the pile.