Retracing a forgotten connection
Under the Carpet is a three-part artwork that invites you to rediscover the disused link road between St John’s Hospital and the Minnewater Clinic.
Like an archaeologist of modernity, Tirtiaux has unearthed two fragments of the original link road between the healthcare facilities. The route has been hidden for decades beneath a thick, green carpet of moss and foliage. At the start of the old road, a broad tongue of moss and vegetation rolls out from the Gatehouse.
It adds wildness to the strange, late Neo- Gothic structure. Along the Wevershof side, another part of the original road can be seen via an ingenious mirrored ceiling. If you follow Wevershof all the way to the end, you can walk over a second fragment. Finally, an undulating viewing platform on the pavement of Prof. Dr J. Sebrechtsstraat affords a view from above.
A walk between the three sculptural interventions – in what is now a residual space – invites viewers and passers-by to reconstruct the newly exposed infrastructure.
