In 1991 Magdalena Jeelovà took over the Viennese Museum of Applied Art, a ornate neo-Renaissance building in the style of a Florentine Palazzo, for her "Domestication of a Pyramid" Utilizing one of the most antique of architectural forms to overwhelm both the more modern architecture and neo-grecian sculptures that line the colonnade.
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From the exhibition catalogue:
Upon entering the building, the visitor finds himself/herself, surprisingly, in a darkened, curved space: soon he/she discovers that he/she is standing under large, slanted scaffolding. He/she instinctively walks to the right, where there is a way out. When he/she returns to the daylight, he/she finds himself/herself in the Museum hall, standing next to a thirteen-meter high tilted wall covered in red silica sand. The wall slices the inner space of the Museum diagonally across two floors, slashing razor-like through pillars and balustrades up to the ceiling. The wall, tilted at a 45° angle and with a base thirty-five meters long, is a fragment of one side of a pyramid which could continue in the exterior of the Museum building.
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