INSTALLATION
BREAKING NEWS
Breaking News is about news and information overload. The subjects of a black and white 16mm film walk in a continual line toward the viewer, their images projected through a sixty by five foot scroll of paper suspended from the ceiling. Filled from top to bottom with a year-long accumulation of printed feeds from an online news and information service, the scroll is filled with stories of tornadoes, sporting events and international political crises. Reflecting on the never-ending deluge of media reporting confronting us daily, the work is a meditation our responsibility as receivers of news and information in our contemporary world.
AUTO DA FE
Auto da Fe addresses our position as witnesses..The installation is comprised of a small darkened room at the back of the gallery, defined by a series of floor to ceiling paper panels. The beam from a film projector mounted on a revolving pedestal in the center of this room illuminates the panels, revealing a projected line of people standing along the perimeter of the space, staring straight ahead. As the projection passes through the printed panels at the front of the space, the subjects of the film are imprinted with stories of embassy bombings, school shooting as they silently gaze at the viewer.
ROOM FIVE
Titled after the studio where Thomas Edison and his assistant developed their first motion film projector, Room Five explores the role of film and photography in 19th century scientific applications and motion studies. The installation is comprised of three rooms, the first containing oversized light bulbs that cast the viewer’s shadow on the wall above the title plates fig. 1, fig. 2, and fig. 3 installed near the floor as they stand before them,. In the middle room there is a projection of a woman walking slowly around the space.. The third room contains a digital ‘lantern-slide machine’.. As the viewer enters the room, light bulbs mounted around the the perimeter of the machine switch on, sequentially projecting their images onto the walls, their subject joining the viewer as they move around the room.
THE LOOKING GLASS PICTURES
Another examination of photography and film in early scientific and medical studies, The Looking Glass Pictures is comprised of a satin- padded room housing sixty glass portraits of women lining its interior. As the viewer enters the installation, a projector suspended from a steel tower in the center of the room switches on, and begins to revolve around the room. Casting shadows of the portraits on the wall beneath them, the film encases their images in its filmed grid.
SHE HAS…
She has… uses familial resemblance as a means to address the ways in which we are defined.. The expressions; ‘her father’s eyes’, ‘her mother’s mouth’, ‘her sister’s smile, and ‘her brother’s brow’, have been etched over the corresponding features of the women in these portraits.. Projecting the images onto the walls behind them, these etched words obscure the facial features in a reflection on the ways in which perception can affect, and sometimes limit, our perception of others.
