A screen capture taken one second into WTC In Four Moments.
NEW YORK---It's hard to give context to tragedy. Just ask the minds behind the newly opened National September 11 Memorial & Museum, which has been roundly criticized for inadequately contextualizing the attacks of 9/11, qualifying the terrorists behind them as "Islamic," and turning the tragedy into fodder for a very tasteless cheese board. On the other end, there's the stripped-down 9/11 remembrance by artist Dinh Q. Lê, who foregoes context altogether. In a recent video installation, "WTC In Four Moments," Lê presents the iconic building as a series of four Rothko-esque color blocks. The four "channels" each depict photographs taken of the WTC, presented in succession from left to right. [link]
0 comments:
Post a Comment