Dig Yourself a Hole
Artist Urs Fischer has dug himself a hole. He destroyed the floor of Gavin Brown’s gallery, cutting the the concrete to expose an open pit full of dirt and rubble. It’s called ‘You’.
A 38-foot-by-30-foot crater, eight feet deep, extends almost to the walls of the gallery, surrounded by a fourteen-inch ledge of concrete floor. A sign at the door cautions, THE INSTALLATION IS PHYSICALLY DANGEROUS AND INHERENTLY INVOLVES THE RISK OF SERIOUS INJURY OR DEATH; intrepid viewers can, all the same, inch their way around the hole. Fischer’s pit is titled You, and it took ten days to build, costing around $250,000 of Brown’s money. (Heaven only knows what his landlord thought of it.)
Can You Dig It? [NY Mag]

