I’ve built a narrow black corridor with a rear white wall to enclose a freestanding welded sculpture that resembles an “A-frame” house. The actual cross-beam connecting the top of the two sides of the frame is missing, and only appears in the projected video. The projection shows an animation of the cross-beam dropping, twisting and floating around the house. It labors to re-connect with the actual structure. This process repeats with each successive attempt without being able to link to the physical object. The connections might only occur by looking, in the mind’s eye.
I think about the gap between the image, and the object as a non-place, it’s not the physical sculpture nor the representation of the animation I’m interested in here, instead – the tension in the disconnected relationship. I initiated a play between the animation and the steel house structure as to connect the representation with the real object which is destined for inevitable failure. I attempt to dislodge the bond between the image from the referent, by inserting a small gap, a question in this stubborn binary relationship.
Installation view at 25 CPW Gallery, NYC, 2009
Caught Between
2009
Digital animation installation, color, silent, 8 min. looped
Front-projection screen embedded in temporary architecture, overall 28 width x 92 height x 72 depth in.
Free standing welded steel sculpture 13.5 x 33 x 8 in.
Installation view at 25 CPW Gallery, NYC, 2009
