The work ‘Untitled (this is a historic opportunity for us)’ was realized at the Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, The Netherlands, as part of the artist in residency in ‘Het Oog’ from February until June 2010.

Each week of the residency a sentence was applied with a graphite pen on the outside wall of the space, constituting a performance. The words were taken from current news items. For the duration of five months, this procedure was repeated on a fixed day at an announced time. In this way, the visitor of the Van Abbemuseum encountered the continuing development of the writing on the wall as a weekly ritual. More and more sentences could be seen on the wall, week after week, resulting in a total of 18 news quotes.

The quotes applied on the wall were also printed on buttons. That is, sometimes the actual sentence from the wall was reproduced on the button and sometimes an image that was part of the news item was chosen to be displayed on the button to accompany the quotes. As a result, every week a new button with a new phrase/image was released and distributed to the visitors in a limited amount. In addition, every distinct button was collected in a vitrine standing in front of the wall, which was part of the installation.