Ellen Kooi Above Rotterdam: One Glass Tower by Wiel Arets and Nine Situations by Katrien Van den Brande (Actar, 2016) is a new book that documents five sets of highly-staged ‘scenarios’ by artist Ellen Kooi, and nine textual ‘situations’ by Katrien Van den Brande, of numerous imaginary guests, who simultaneously inhabit the B’ Tower–a high-rise in the center of Rotterdam by WAA. In Kooi's 'sets', a girl cuddles with Weimaraners; a lonely business man digitally pines for his distant love; a young couple seduces one another; an informal dinner gathering morphs into a musical; a mother creates a dream world for her and her children. The publication is a two-dimensional immersion into a parallel urban reality, that’s at once fantasy and fiction–yet remarkably familiar.

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Published
2016

Editor
John Bezold

Photography
Ellen Kooi

Text
Katrien Van den Brande

Publisher
Actar, New York

Graphic design
Mainstudio

Pages
180

ISBN
978-1-945-15022-7