Hauser & Wirth | Double Negative: Two Massive Cuts Carved into the Plateau

At the edge of a desert mesa, 240,000 tons of rock were removed with explosives and excavators, cutting two gigantic trenches facing each other across a natural canyon. Each trench is about fifteen meters deep, nine meters wide, and a total of 450 meters long. The work itself is not anything placed, but rather “the part that was removed”—sculpture as negative space. The rock walls of the trenches retain traces of blasting and machinery, with fallen rubble accumulated at the bottom, continuing to weather and collapse over the years. The surroundings are completely open reddish-brown desert and distant mountains. Shot in strong daylight from inside or above the trenches, with clear shadows of the rock walls and scale contrast. Avoid: adding any structures, smoothing the rock walls, clearing fallen rubble, presence of roads and buildings in the surroundings.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

在沙漠台地的邊緣,以炸藥與挖土機移除二十四萬噸的岩石,切出兩道彼此相對、隔著一道天然峽谷的巨型溝槽,各長約十五公尺深、九公尺寬、總長四百五十公尺。作品的本體不是任何被放置的東西,而是「被移走的那部分」——雕塑等於負空間。溝槽的岩壁保留爆破與機具的痕跡,底部堆積著崩落的碎石,隨年月持續風化崩塌。周圍為完全空曠的紅褐色沙漠與遠山。日間強光下從溝槽內部或上方拍攝,岩壁的陰影與尺度對比清楚。避免:加設任何構造物、岩壁修整平滑、清除崩落碎石、周圍出現道路與建物。