In her new work Minimal Art on Acid, Elsemarijn Bruys takes her cue from minimal art, an art movement from the 1960s in which subtle objects and small interventions in a space make you aware of your surroundings and invite you to look at them in a new way. Bruys, however, goes a step further than traditional minimal art, transforming the attic space at the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam with a grand gesture rather than a subtle intervention. The museum’s monumental eighteenth-century wooden roof structure plays a central role in her design. The lines of the roof, the pillars and the depth of the space inspired Bruys to create an installation in which moving mirrors repeat and distort the space. Visitors see not only their own reflection but also that of others, thereby themselves becoming part of the installation and the space.
