Curated by Lauri Firstenberg
Harris Lieberman, New York
November 19 – January 21, 2006
01. Installation view
02. Untitled (Broken Baccarat)
03. Untitled (Broken Baccarat) – detail
04. Untitled (Broken Baccarat) – detail image
DESCRIPTION
A friend gave me a lead-crystal Baccarat sphere as a gift. I threw it out of my two-story window, but it incurred minor damage. I tried to photograph it, but because of complex refractions, it would not reveal itself. The object could not be broken or represented—perhaps becoming enigmatic through this process.
“…The exhibition investigates subtle, absurd and fantastical spatial and temporal experiments, based on chance and construction, primarily in the mediums of photography, video and sculpture, in an effort to question translation, invention and perception. Many of the artists in the show engage in a process that Mark Godfrey has noted in an Artforum article entitled "Image Structures: Photography and Sculpture" (February 2005): ‘photography and sculpture have entered a more complex phase of their relationship, folding over each other, reversing positions, flipping back and forth, the one becoming the other.’” – Lauri Firstenberg, from the press release for Happenstance