Rotary

Ana Holck’s Rotary is a revolving door built in the same scale of the space it occupies. In executing a decomposition of the unity of this location through its mobile compartments, it consequently generates an infinite space through its dynamic. By entering the installation, one sees oneself repeatedly taking the same course, determined by the general orientation of the room, since it is a circular wall, therefore constituting and infinite surface. However, there lies an additional issue: we could say that this very visitor is always in a “living room” [sala de estar], never in a “being room” [sala de ser]. In a room in which one is always entering, but never reaches a fixed, objective point, a state of rest is forbidden. That is, the room, whose function in its constructive program would be receiving or offering a moment of repose and pause, has its natural statute inverted, by becoming the place not of an intentional passage, but of an intentional circulation, whose goal ends up being the act of taking the course itself, the fact of reaching the room and finding oneself in it. One sees oneself continually in a transitional – and even expectational – situation when permanence becomes the continuous act of entry, when it directly binds itself to an incessant dynamic state.

[Guilherme Bueno]