INCREASINGLY EMPTY FORMS : 1928-1999, 2008
12 Digital chromogenic prints mounted on plexiglas
30 X 24'' EACH
'' this suite of twelve photographs extends those limits by exploring a different way to “read” them. Each discreet image shows a cross-section of the pages of a closed book, an encyclopedic volume about the life of Stanley Kubrick. They separates out the phases of Kubrick’s filmmaking career, generating subtly changing abstract forms for each one. Each individual photograph relates to a different Kubrick film over the course of his life.
In Increasingly Empty Forms, however, we see just one slow exhale. As the images progress to the end of the book, the black gaps become increasingly thick, shifting the balance from the white stripes of pages to the empty forms of the thumb cuts. This shift from white to black expresses the transfer of the energy of a life spent.''
Sarah Knelman, Curator Hamilton art gallery, 2008
1: installation view, Hamilton art gallery, Ontario, Canada
2-3-4: details
