Since there is no slide in the projector, it's constantly trying to focus on something that isn't there. So, it results in this pulsing light. It's almost like breathing. Almost like it is alive. |
So, the show very quickly became a historic show. |
The camera literally just crawls over every surface. It moves in and out of being abstract and concrete. It becomes this intense investigation of this one artwork. |
The slides are the way art history is taught. It's the way artists and art historians learn about art. Even now, a good portion of your art history classes is taught with slides, not digitally. |
This is the only piece in the show that doesn't have a slide in it. In some ways, it's the most conceptual piece in the exhibition. |
This work already gets you to start questioning. Slides are (generally) projected on the wall. But this one is on the floor. It gets you to think artists are turning this very traditional medium into something they can manipulate. |