Medium (The End)
Medium (The End), installation view, Goethe-Institut Dublin
- Year:
- 2007
- Materials:
- 1 projected 35mm slide, computer, dissolve unit
- Duration:
- 10 hours (variable, depending on gallery opening hours)
Medium (The End) takes the form of the projection of a single 35mm slide. The projector is programmed to cause the image to slowly ‘fade to black’ over the duration of the gallery’s day. The fade is barely perceptible to the naked eye, and yet from the moment the projector is turned on each morning the ‘fade to black’ begins.
By the time the gallery closes at the end of each day, the image has completely disappeared. Simultaneously, the prolonged presence of the single slide in the projector gate causes the slow obliteration of the image as the emulsion is effected by the heat and light of the projector bulb. This produces entropy, moving in the opposite direction: a ‘fading to white’. The slide is replaced every day with a fresh copy.
Medium (Upsidedown) and Medium (The End) were exhibited simultaneously in Gallery for One at 5 Scarlet Row and The Return at the Goethe-Institut Dublin respectively, from September 8th to October 6th 2007, and curated by Georgina Jackson and Vaari Claffey.
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Downloads:
- Invite and leaflet pdf:
File: Medium invite.pdf [264.94units_k]
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