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Closure is a video animation loop composed of sequential still images of a Brooklyn apartment house as seen from the far end of the garden at night, accompanied by a distorted ambient soundtrack of the same city environment. The point of view presents the gaze of a hidden subject whose adopted personal space - a found point of stasis - is a translucent enclosure of privacy. The fixed physical structure, the subtle movement of shadows and light, the appearance and disappearance of "presence", serve to symbolize this enclosure as penetrated by the subject's gaze. As a threshold between the static and active nature of the private and public environment with which it is surrounded, the voyeuristic subject of this gaze is a body unseen; a body to be occupied by the viewer of this work within the sequence's latent narrative. The static image suddenly, and repeatedly shifts every so slightly in orientation, the viewer's positioning as body-object is repeatedly challenged, and the gaze is drawn deeper into the image as spatial locator.

Exhibited:

2003, "Body Matters", a collection show at The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo.
2002, "Locations", Rotunda Gallery, New York.

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