Bethan Huws

Ysgol, 2013
Aluminum ladder
Courtesy of the artist
Supported by Stiftung Skulpturenpark Köln
Aluminum ladder
Courtesy of the artist
Supported by Stiftung Skulpturenpark Köln
Directly following the invitation she received to take part in KölnSkulptur #7, Bethan Huws remembered one of her old drawings from the late 1970s. On it she recorded her idea of having a freestanding ladder reach vertically skywards. Decades later, this idea has now been carried out for the first time. A three-part, commercially produced aluminum ladder is extended its full length into the air so as to end level with the zoo bridge, while implying that it could go even higher.