Language Barrier
May 22 – August 30, 2009
Centro Cultural Montehermoso
Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

Artists
One of eight solo projects by: Ion Arregi, Marcelo Expósito, Aurélien Froment, Andre Guedes, Irene Kopelman, Nathaniel Mellors, Pia Rönicke, Lisa Tan.


Two projections each show the glass-encased entrance lobbies of two high-rise apartment buildings in Buenos Aires. One projection shows a tracking shot with a recurring mechanism that takes the viewer past the length of the lobby, repeatedly, as the position of a doorman changes with each successive pass. The second projection shows a stationary shot of the lobby, while the only movement is that of random traffic reflected in the glass facade. The work developed from long and regular walks around this affluent neighborhood at nighttime, interacting with the materiality of the buildings’—which is dominated by reflective surfaces of glass, mirror and polished marble, and interacting with the doormen sealed within.


Texts
Crivelli Visconti, Jacopo. The Transparency of Language.
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