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Exhibitions / Cube, Installation & Mixed techniques Yellow Under Pressure

Cube #15 — Anni Mertens
© photo 1: Anni Mertens / photo 2: Silvia Arenas

Yellow Under Pressure transforms the cube into a surreal desert-scape. Inspired by Rotondes’ shifting environment, this site-specific sculpture installation reflects a space caught between construction and constraint.

Scaffolding palm trees compressed against the cubes limits, and ceramic pillars emerging from sand-covered ground suggest a landscape defined by resilience under pressure. The distorted forms and vibrant yellows seem both familiar and uncanny, blending glossy colours with industrial neon reflections to create a disorienting interplay of texture, colour, and light. 

From outside the cube, viewers get a glimpse of a dreamlike scene where surfaces deceive, textures shift, and materials challenge perception. One might wonder: How do we squeeze ourselves into the spaces we inhabit, always adapting and shifting, yet never quite fitting?

Anni Mertens

Anni Mertens is a Luxembourgish artist based in Rotterdam (NL). She mainly works with ceramics, found objects, steel, and a healthy dose of humour. Her sculptural work embraces both abstraction and disfiguration, precision and looseness. Her intuitive approach, coupled with her playful experimentation with material, size and colour, contributes to the expansion of her toolkit full of shapes, materials and visual effects.

Anni’s website

cube

cube is a cycle of temporary artistic installations, designed outside a formal gallery space for the greatest number of people to enjoy. This space is located between the entrance for the Rotonde 2 and the Buvette.

production : Rotondes