A-Z Time Tunnel: Time to get into perfect shape. 2000.
Installation. Powder-coated steel, wood, plywood plate, aluminum, MDF, paint, lighting and sound box.
122 x 233 x 123 cm (48 x 91.7 x 48.4 in).
Functioning. [JS].
• In her unmistakable oeuvre, the Californian artist Andrea Zittel creates a confusing fusion of art and everyday life.
• In seemingly naive living worlds, Zittel playfully addresses existential questions of our existence: How do we want to live? What do we really need? Who are we?
• The caravan-like, mobile dwelling in strange dimensions somewhere between a toy and a mobile home with bed, cupboard, toilet, kitchen and treadmill, addresses the question to what extent people have to adapt to the at times absurd demands of a man-made environment.
• With the sound of a fast-moving treadmill, Zittel confronts us with the paradoxical request "Time to get into perfect shape" in view of the living environment that has turned out to be too small.
• Zittel, whose work also includes spectacular land art projects, is represented by Sprüth Magers, Berlin/London/New York, and the Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York.

PROVENANCE: Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York.
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia (acquired from the above in 2000).

"Every space I've lived in, I've turned into an art project"
Andrea Zittel, 2020