The room covered with a grid of black lines refers to rooms used to simulate reality, and especially references the famous Holo Deck on Starship Enterprise. This first version was in black and white, and the recreation is 'to the best of our abilities under the circumstances', much like a rural museum run by a single owner with not enough cash and little knowledge but a lot of enthusiasm.
A pleasant lounge setting is created within the reality-simulation, signalling an island of cosy comfort within the grid. The objects and sounds gathering there, belong to very different categories, relate through a hypertext of references. The colour may be the same or a story talked about, however the overall effect is one of disharmonious unity. Now in this room, the grid, which is supposed to reference an abstract, mathematical, absolute level, is broken by the presence of real things. It is not clear, if these objects are remnants of a failed attempt to simulate reality, or the grid is just a wallpaper, to make the room look good, and to bring to attention a collection of objects, sounds, and documents. Dirt comes into play. Schroedingers cat is alive.

In the installation the grid versus reality, a reality to be simulated within this abstract quantification, applies to Schrat's work in a general sense as the economic system versus the social system; in a condensed format: Money versus things that it can be exchanged for.
The installation is completed by 30 columns between 1,2 mm and 9 m high, growing out of the grid, representing the profit of FTSE 30 companies from last year. In a playful way they serve as well as plinths for other things as well as being a sculptural entity themselves. They are arranged "according to aesthetic rules".
As a gesture that puts the economic discussion into practice, Schrat decided to put all the pieces within the show up for sale via e-bay, an Internet auction house, where they can be found in the odd section "self representing artists". During the time of the show one can watch transparent process of pricing and bid. (www.ebay.com, keyword Schrat)

Henrik Schrat has staged the project FEEDING BACK, Manager in Residence at Slade School of Fine Art, bringing a person with a corporate background into the college for three months. On on hand the project was understood as a long term perforamande, on the other hand it got transfered into a serious administrative undertaking of the college. A short story of the project - which finished in May 2002 - and a few initial pieces emerging from this project will be shown, embedding the whole project within a narrative context. Schrat again uses cartoons and comics to open up space beyond the "reality" parts of the project, and to insist on the artistic dimension of the process.