Enclosure
Enclosure
1980 – 1987
1200 x 685 x 300 cm
A large walk in installation with its own light and sound systems
- thirty four metres of hurricane fencing
- thirty four metres of chromed barbed wire
- twenty two rectangular metal containers
- twenty gallons of tar
- one large bag of game feathers
- four exterior halogen night spotlights
- four three metre metal support poles for the spotlights
- four mission loudspeakers
- one bale of straw
- two prefabricated timber and board barriers 3 x 3 x 2 m
- one black tarpaulin floor covering 10 x 7 m
- one cassette deck
- one compatible amplifier
- one tape loop
- one stylised wood chair
- one piece of black cloth
Exhibition provenance
Serpentine Gallery, London, 1988 – installation in the West Gallery
This work was commissioned by the Serpentine Gallery for the one person exhibition Denis Masi: Monuments To Collapse
