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VIP takes its title from the architecture of exclusion: the private room, the backspace, the

greenroom, the area marked for limited access.

Here, “VIP” refers not to a person, but to a space.

Such spaces generate attraction precisely through restriction. Their walls hold an unknown

interior. The imagination fills what cannot be seen. The desire to enter becomes a quiet negoti-

ation between curiosity and prohibition.

In this installation, the black cubical room is separated from its original function and reima-

gined as a sculptural form. Removed from architecture, it becomes an object: a dense, opaque

block whose interior remains inaccessible.

This enclosed space echoes, as ideas emerge from a place that cannot be directly observed or

fully articulated. The process of making begins in this interior zone not entirely conscious.

The inflatable structures, cast in black polyurethane resin, are presented both as a threshold

and as an organism. They suggest passage, but also obstruction. Their surfaces are industrial

and precise, yet their forms retain the memory of inflation, with expansion and pressure.

The installation occupies the space with a subtle tension, pulling inward and pushing outward

simultaneously. It proposes that access is always partial, and that what draws us most strong-

ly may be what we cannot fully enter.

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Elia Capitoli , b. 1994

Bachelor Degree in Industrial and Graphic Design 2016

Lives and works in London

The exhibition is kindly supported by Statens Kunstfond,

Nørrebro Lokaludvalg, Augustinus Fonden and Bajeur.

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