Nathaniel Rackowe

October 2005. At 5 x 3 x 2 metre, Sixty Eight Doors completely fills a substantial gallery space, from top to bottom. The artist’s most ambitious work to date, it is made up of 68 hollow-core domestic doors, mounted upright on a plinth, one in front of another, in two evenly spaced rows. Attached to the inside edge of each door is a 6-foot long fluorescent light bulb. The space between the rows, lit by the fluorescent bulbs, forms a corridor through which the viewer walks. “Arranged in this way,” explains Nathaniel Rackowe, “the doors don’t function as doors, but create another kind of portal.”