The installation consists of three painted freestanding walls in the exhibition space, with supports and iron weights, like a stage set. The three walls each represent cross-sections of the air space at three different positions in an apartment: a room, a doorway, another room. The contours trace the architecture: wall, ceiling, wall, skirting, floor, threshold, door-frame. By painting these “cross-sections” over and over again with transparent coats of black pigment and alternately sandpapering the surfaces, Jakob Simonson builds up a painting that is on the boundary where images are created, or disappear, where an image is barely an image.
