ONE NIGHT STAND (PARIS)

EXHIBITION

LAXART, Los Angeles
November 11 – December 31, 2006




01. Invitation Image




02. Installation view – One Night Stand (Paris) (opening title sequence) and Roman Lovers




03. Installation view – One Night Stand (Paris) and Roman Lovers




04. Installation view – One Night Stand (Paris)




05. Installation view – One Night Stand (Paris)




06. Installation view – One Night Stand (Paris)




07. Installation view – Roman Lovers (detail)




DESCRIPTION

“One Night Stand (Paris)” is a psuedo-performative work formally resolved as a film. It contends with a range of ongoing artistic issues for me including aesthetics, the history of representation, desire, and displacement. For this piece, I traveled to Paris for one night, taking only a notebook and a change of clothes. I documented the experience through writing. The writing, which forms a representation of my “one night stand” with this iconic city, was translated into a subtitled black film. The subtitles are paced to follow the experience of watching any foreign film. For this exhibition, the film was projected in front of a piece titled “Roman Lovers.” This sculptural work is based on a photograph I took in Rome. This otherwise banal urban arrangement of a plant and a mid-twentieth century globe light, becomes a romantic scene at night. The glow of the light brightens the plant as much as the plant glows for the light.