Group Exhibition (Maria Antelman,
Matthew Booth, N. Dash, Aria Dymond, Amy Granat, Shawn Kuruneru, Tony Lewis,
Maaike Schoorel, Davina Semo):
“…But The Clouds…”
There’s a silent code
between viewer and video/installation work that demands you to stay still and
view it with undivided attention.
This slideshow of black and white images (featuring cryptic scenes of men
and women in 1950s America, seated in an auditorium) is almost disguised as a
video projection, matched with audio (murmurs of a crowd whispering beneath a
female speaker giving an instructional speech on how to avoid repeating the
same mistakes in your life by changing the images and habits in your thoughts).
You hear the speech and quickly
realize the artist must have created a voiceover for the projection, because
the audio sounds lo-fi/vintage and could easily be the exact content being
discussed in the auditorium with the ‘50s attendees, but the content of the
discourse doesn’t match that time period represented in the photographs, making
the content of audio and visual elements contradict one another and juxtapose.
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