OFFICE 58

Seven Rooms, curated by Moritz Küng, was the first major retrospective exhibition of OFFICE, at deSingel Arts Campus in Antwerp, BE. For this, an existing 80m long corridor of the complex was divided by eight white plaster boards into seven equal sections. The sequence of rooms could be entered from both ends,  and each room enclosed a composition of models and images depicting a certain project or a theme. In the exhibition catalogue, Enrique Walker wrote: “(...) Seven Rooms articulates the trajectory of a decision, a problem deliberately self-imposed and relentlessly addressed: The definition of a room, inside or outside a given architecture (a room within a room: sometimes a room inscribed in an existing room, sometimes a room circumscribed about an existing room), and against which the room is formulated as a mathematical correction; a problem whose resolution (the demarcation of limits, the positioning of thresholds, the reduction of leftovers) is met once this room, and its delineation, seems as if it had actually preceded rather than followed the given architecture – a project as an erratum.”