The main room of the gallery was occupied by a new work, 

 (2009). The room was entirely filled with a polyhedral space-frame, into which the body of the viewer is invited to wander. Completely negating the orthogonal geometries of regular architecture, this aggregate surrounds a void: a human-shaped cave more than ten times life-size. A catalogue accompanied the exhibition including a text by the British physicist and cosmologist Roger Penrose.

Xavier Hufkens

, 2009, 10 mm square section stainless steel bar and 38 mm diameter stainless steel bearings, 381 × 1094.2 × 697 cm. Photograph by Allard Bovenberg, Amsterdam.

, 2009, cast iron, 196 × 50 × 32 cm and 

, 2008, carbon and casein on paper, 77 × 111 cm. Photograph by Allard Bovenberg, Amsterdam.

, 2009, cast iron, 40 × 127 × 71 cm. Photograph by Allard Bovenberg, Amsterdam.

, 2008, 2009, cast iron, 191 × 96 × 95 cm. Photograph by Allard Bovenberg, Amsterdam.

, 2008, 2009, 2 mm square section stainless steel bar, 244 × 224 × 210 cm and 

, 2008, 1.6 mm stainless steel rod, 240 × 180 × 140 cm. Photograph by Allard Bovenberg, Amsterdam.

, 2009, cast iron, 179 × 61 × 34 cm. Photograph by Allard Bovenberg, Amsterdam.

, 2009, 6 mm square section mild steel bar, 188 × 51 × 34 cm. Photograph by Allard Bovenberg, Amsterdam.

, 2008, 2009, 2 mm square section stainless steel bar, 217 × 125 × 101 cm. Photograph by Allard Bovenberg, Amsterdam.

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