ZOE LEONARD
2012-09-24Engaging many of today’s core questions around photography and image-making, and stepping back from current debates about analogue versus digital (or nostalgia versus progress), Leonard will transform one of the gallery’s spaces into a camera obscura.In this embodied experience of viewing, a constantly changing panorama of 17th Street – with its mix of architecture and urban activity that reflects the immense changes in Chelsea in recent years – will project continuously on the floor, walls, and ceiling. Neither analogue nor digital, the dark box of the camera obscura can be understood as a model for the mind and the unconscious, an apparatus that makes visible the mechanics of sight. What happens inside resembles what transpires in one’s eye: light lands on the retina inverted and reversed, and a series of transformations occurs in the brain allowing us to comprehend the images we receive.
Exhibition runs through till October 27th, 2012
Murray Guy
453 West 17th Street
New York
10011
