Dark Space
Darkroom Chromogenic prints with alterations, Single channel video loop
2015
The area of inquiry is the dark space between the present moment and the recorded moment, the image and its object. Manifesting as ideas across temporal distance, shapes and forms transmute from photographs to obsessive, accumulative contour drawings, to paintings and back again to photography in a reproductive loop. In images from a vast water cave in the Slovenian forest, the limited color spectrum offered by fleeting and artificial light sources compromises fidelity in perception. Stripping away the light sensitive emulsion on the surface of the mural prints of these underground spaces uncovers an afterimage burned into the backing paper, a memory embedded in material.
Installation views:
Songs for Presidents Gallery, NYC, solo show