Documented artwork / inhabitable tape installation
Tape Des Moines
Credit as documented: Numen / For Use
Tape Des Moines created an inhabitable, translucent structure inside the lower and upper I. M. Pei galleries at the Des Moines Art Center. Made for Drawing in Space, the installation contrasted a light, organic enclosure with the building's rough concrete and emphatic geometry. Numen / For Use describes its form as following the building's existing flows of movement. Visitors could take familiar routes through an elevated enclosed passage, experiencing the gallery's circulation from within the artwork.
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At a glance
- Year / version
- 2017–2018 exhibition
- Materials
- tape (composition unspecified)
- Documented setting
- indoor
- Dimensions
- Not documented
- Dimensions apply to
- Not documented
- Availability
- Unconfirmed
Places & versions
Installation history
Historical presentations. A past installation does not establish the current location or suitability for a new site.
2017–2018
I. M. Pei galleries, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa
- Site
- I. M. Pei galleries, Des Moines Art Centre
- Event
- Drawing in Space
- Setting
- indoor
- Start date
- 2017-09-28
- End date
- 2018-01-21
- Date meaning
- listing
Installation details checked 2026-10-17.
Materials and construction
The artist calls it a tape installation but provides no polymer specification, load rating or overall measurements. Its described translucency was heightened by contrast with the concrete setting.
Presentation and site context
The documented exhibition ran September 28, 2017 through January 21, 2018. That presentation has ended; the record does not imply the structure survives in place.
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- numen.eu ↗ · Checked 2026-10-17