photographs
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Massaging the Modernist Myth, 2004
Massaging the Modernist Myth is a two-channel video and photograph installation that explores Jean Dubuffet’s public sculpture, Monument to the Phantom in Houston, TX. With two video cameras sandwiched together in front of my eyes, I move in and out and around Dubuffet’s sculpture by touch. Throughout my interaction with the sculpture, you hear my body rub its surface as I feel my way and squeeze through the archways. The sounds of my movement in the videos situate my presence, while the movement connects to the corporeal. There are five rows of six 16" x 20" photographs that capture both the inside and outside perspective of each of the archways that I moved through while shooting the videos. My engagement with this sculpture examines the formalist myth of the autonomous genius artist.
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