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Taking Place, 1990
Gary Hill
Installation Stills
Sixteen-channel video/sound installation
Sixteen one-half-inch to twenty-one-inch black and white TV tubes positioned in horizontal inset in wall, sixteen videocassette players, two speakers, one audio mixer with equalizer, and sixteen VHS tapes
Edition of two and one artist's proof
This piece consists of sixteen fragments of a body on sixteen monitors of different sizes, all located in a niche. From a distance, a body in a fetal position can be perceived in the arrangement of the monitors. From close by, one perceives an absurd situation in which a fragmential body visibly breathes and produces low sounds. In both works, the image changes only minimally throughout the duration of the work. They invite the spectator to engage in a more meditative observation. A seeming opposition makes its presence felt, between the totality of one's perception at first sight and the long duration of the work. Here, the emphasis is on the body rendering time physically tangible.
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