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farwanderer - Installation
DVD video installation with sound
run time 16:45, looping
2003
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Two rear-projection screens are suspended at right angles in the space, forming a free-floating corner filled with images. A soundtrack of manipulated field recordings is punctuated at intervals by the whispered story of a drifting traveler, as told in a series of letters to Home. A narrative of diffraction, displacement, and shifting identity develops as the traveler tries to recognize Home in every new destination. The traveling narrator ends each letter with a request: please send another picture postcard showing a familiar view of New York. Slowly the traveler's use of these iconic postcards reveals a private ritual binding Home and Away, Self and Other, together.
Each of the tandem images presents a different facet of the narrator's story. Sometimes we see shifting versions of the same piece of film, while in other moments the images clash, complement, or comment on each other. Meaning is always negotiated between the images, however, just as the traveler's sense of self is caught forever between Home and Away, and the changing definitions of each.
First exhibition at WAX gallery, Brooklyn, New York
May 15 - June 11, 2003
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