Antwerp City Collection

Using photographic documentation and tape-recorded discussion with the resident at Jan Denucéstraat 3 in Antwerp, Willats considered the variety of objects around the living room collected and organised by the resident in order to make his work Contrasts in Form and Meaning. He understood these objects as a way to generate different networks of meanings. The contained environment of the living room was rich in objects that were stereotypes of contrasting attitudes to living, but which were made to co-exist. In the work, we see three networks for the audience to consider as a sequence: opposition – dependency – mutuality.