endless net. Kai Lossgott. 2017.

  • endless net: thousands of post-consumer fragments fixed as nodes in a net of florist netting laid across a gallery floor, with white cushions and a book resting on it.

    endless net — the found-object database as a net across the gallery floor. waiting room, Gallery Gallery, Antwerp (BE) · 2017.

  • Detail of the net: post-consumer fragments — glass, plastic, packaging — fixed one to a cell of the netting in a regular grid.

    Detail: each fragment a node in the net — in the saying, a diamond.

  • White cushions with headphones and printed cards at the edge of the net, laid out for sitting and listening.

    The waiting room: cushions and headphones at the edge of the net, for listening.

  • Wide view of the gallery: the net spread low across the concrete floor, cushions around it, an open doorway beyond.

    Installation view: the net on the floor, the room left open on four sides.

endless net is a found-object database in the form of a net — postconsumer waste and re-purposed florist netting, laid as a grid across the gallery floor. Thousands of fragments of discarded plastic, glass and packaging are fixed as nodes in the net, each piece a point in a vast web of interconnection.

It was conceived as a piece of urban land art. The net has Buddhist origins — a web in which every node is said to be a jewel, a diamond. It is, in a sense, a map of the ubiquity, and the surpassing disaster, of what has become part of ecology.

endless net formed part of the waiting room installation at Gallery Gallery, Antwerp (2017), where cushions and headphones invited visitors to sit at the edge of the net and listen.

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