In The End, there is a coming together of several works and issues that the artist has been developing over the last years, such as the inscription of verbal signs associated to socially-felt symptoms, and which are visually presented in order to expand their meaning; or also a set of works, perhaps the most well-known, that through a device central to the installation, provoke a certain interactive behavior with the overall meaning of the work. This installation by Henrik Plenge Jakobsen is developed over the idea of an end and its cliché at the moment, a theme that at this end of millenium has  exhaustively fuelled dis­courses ranging from aesthetics and the history of art to the mass media or to advertising. Independently of the reasons which animate them, all of these discour­ses use the term in such diverse manners that it has become what Roland Barthes designated as a floating significant, which signifies nothing on its own but seems to raise and justify the very existence of this hysterical proliferation of discourses. The several elements that make up the instal­lation are inscribed within this idea, signifi­cantly crossing through several orders of reference and subjecting them to the expe­rience of the visitor.
We then find a large box covered in acrylic which takes up over a third of the room, and which evokes the memory of Donald Judd's specific objects; yet their shocking pink color differentiates them and grants them with a very different Pop aspect. On the walls of the room two large vinyl stick­ers, which seem like logos, and on which is written the words The End, make a vague reference to Systemic Painting, namely that of Kenneth Noland or of Frank Stella. But here the aspect of the icon for mass-con­sumption is also superimposed over these references. In this manner, we may register a first crossing between the memory of Modernist works, traditionally associated to its end, and the popular culture shown in the colors, materials and presentation, which in a purely Modernist perspective would be seen as kitsch.
Two lampshades, with Danish design from the fifties, giving out an intense pink light, have the word Angst written on them, responding to The End in the logo and pre­dicting the visitor's experience.The box has an opening on one of Its cor­ners, from which there hangs a hose of intermittent red light, requesting the gaze to follow it until it is lost In the darkness, and curiosity incites the visitor to enter.
Within the gloomy path, only lit up by the hose, is shown to be a vaster maze than one might imagine, capable of provoking claustrophobia and anxiety in those who go through it. The strictly visual perception to which Modernism confined the work of art, and to which box this refers, is superim­posed by the corporal experience that turns out to be very different, something painful and unpleasant. Contributing towards this
is the time of the experiment, which, in going beyond the limit of the expectations, returns the attention of the body to the body itself and is obliged to continue the path, beyond the satisfying of curiosity, its initial aim.
A clear contrast is thus established between the seduction of the visual aspect and the physical experience of the maze, yet the crossing of their meanings is much more complex than it may seem at first sight. This returns to us the cliche of the ends as an anecdote, beyond which exist our existence and awareness of the world.
If the series of specific objects by Donald Judd may mark out the extreme limit - the end - of a Modernist paradigm, they are also its overcoming through the implication of the temporal nature in the forming of their perception. The differences and repetitions that the series of “boxes”, present, define perception as a process of unification of their data. So the fact that we can enter these objects, and experience it through a more interactive process, does not only amplify the aspects that make up an overcoming of Modernism, but also returns to us the awareness of an inevitable path beyond the  ends  and  its arbitrary nature. In this sense the ends are a mobile territory which is needed to be questioned through the contexts of mean­ing that they produce and which produce them. If a work by Judd may be seen as an end, or,  paradoxically,  the disclosing of another horizon, it is towards another horizon that  this work by Henrik Plenge Jakobsen sends us; that is, the work as a trap or interactive device for the decon­struction of some of the cliches of contem­porary culture.
In mixing references from an avant-garde culture with some aspects of popular cul­ture throughout which run the same order of questions, it is not a stating that kitsch and the industries of culture are formed as reifications of the enunciations of the for­mer, but that the avant-garde is also placed within the same order of questions that it is necessary to comprehend as an ideological mechanism and to proceed to its deconstruction. Thus, to speak of the end of Modernism may be so laughable for the artist as the end of history or other ends, principally if we see Modernism as a critical work served by a dynamic process, capable of dealing with the growing complexity of the references which give it life.  In an installation in which the history of the objects hurls them in several superim­posed directions, and their distribution forces us to think upon the complexity of relationships they hold, Super-Modernity may well be the most adequate designa­tion, as remaining the hostage of the col­lapsing of an aim is open to the most diverse misunderstandings.