Oscar Lourens - Possessing Spaces
| Type of publication | Article in book |
| Article title | The Paradox of Possessing Space |
| Author(s) | Jeroen van den Eijnde |
| Language | Dutch - English |
| Publisher | Veenman Publishers / Gijs Stork |
| Year of publication | 2008 |
| Sales | oscarlourens.nl |
The publication presents an overview of work from the period 1998-2008 and includes two texts by Jeroen van den Eijnde and Gerard Koek. The first fifty books are numbered and signed and are accompanied by an original print, mounted on aluminum.
Possession is power. Those who pursue power want to own people and things. A good way to achieve this is by literally or figuratively "shrinking" them: you reduce people to willing subjects, you miniaturize the world of things into models and maps. Those in power love to pore over maps of territories to be colonized or conquered, or over the plans of urban development plans. Those who dwell in the miniature world of dollhouses, model railways, or Madurodam feel like kings or queens of an infinite world.