dutch artist mark manders is representing his country at the 55th international venice biennale with an exhibition titled 'room with a broken sentence', curated by lorenzo benedetti and commissioned by mondriaan fund. of particular significance, this year marks the 100th anniversary of gerrit rietveld's design of the dutch pavilion and entrance into the international art/architecture exhibition, hosting now a benchmark of contemporary dutch art. his piece titled 'mind study' features a beautifully finished table held up only by the chairs partially tucked around the periphery. a clay human-like sculpture is anchored into one end of the table, leaning radically off the table's edge held in place by a balanced mechanism: tensioned cables stretching across the table top and wrap around a projecting wooden member before being fixed into a counterweight under the table made of the same material. what would normally be understood as individual objects with their own structural integrity are now presented as a complex fragile system whereby the quotidian and radical expressions are inextricably connected to one another...

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