Bik van der Pol 
Catching Some Air, 2000-2005 (detail) 
Ink on tracing paper and inkjet prints
Dimensions variable

Bik Van der Pol - Lisbeth Bik and Jos Van der Pol - call their installation "an informal archive for referential material." The duo took 143 images - mostly of artworks and artists, plus some texts from art history books, journals, and magazines… …the images have for the most part been reproduced in pencil on white tracing paper; the sheets…hung with clips in neat rows, like books packed into shelves, making the gallery…look like a cross between a private library and a Minimalist vitrine. The air of the title comes from a moving fan, which makes its presence visible when the edges of the images lightly flutter.

– Jennifer Allen, Artforum, 2005 

Photo © Carsten Eisfeld