ODED HIRSCH – NOTHING NEW
2012-03-12Hirsch’s unaffected documentary-style and linear narrative structures are sometimes at odds with the questionable nature of the actions performed on film. In “50 Blue,” Hirsch’s brother pushes his father in a wheelchair through a rugged terrain towards a destination the audience only comes to know at the end – a destination that seems anti-climactic at best. After having been hoisted up onto a high structure along the water’s edge, the paraplegic father is left to appreciate a view (obstructed by a horizontal bar) of the shoreline.
In this sense, Hirsch toys with the very idea of accomplishment, interrogating the assumption that whatever was suffered through, despite the effort, was worth it. While something has indeed been achieved, and a certain amount of exertion has resulted from the completion of a particular task (in this case laboring to bring a man in a wheelchair to the top of a lake-side tower), its significance seems unsure.
Exhibition runs through to April 15th, 2012
Thierry Goldberg Gallery
103 Norfolk Street
New York
NY
10002
