Closed
During the connection the gallery will be closed.
This exhibition is on view only while you are disconnected from the internet. Switch off your network — airplane mode, unplug, drop the Wi‑Fi — and the gallery opens. Reconnect and it closes again. Nothing is sent or fetched to know this; the page simply asks the browser whether you are still online, and believes the answer.
Open
The gallery is open. There is no one here but you, and no work but this.
You left the internet to arrive. Whatever the network promised this artwork would be, here it is: an empty room you reached by disconnecting. No record is kept of your visit. Reconnect and the door swings shut.