Zero
Divide , 2001
architectural sound sculpture
stainless steel, synthesized voices, audio components
36"x6"x6" each, 7'x4.5'x43" mounted
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In
Zero Divide, Camille Norment continues her investigation of sound,
object and the body and their intersection in fantasy and fetish.
Protruding at waist height from two walls flanking a corner, two
stainless steel arms face each other, extending from the walls at
45° angles. They leave a space in-between that's just big enough
for a body to press into and fill the void. Looking a little like
sci-fi ray-guns pointed at one another, each object contains a speaker
sphere that omits an oscillating sound loop of sighing voices. The
phallic fetishes objects are engaged in each other in terms of sound
and the direction of their aim, as if mutually aroused in attraction
or repulsion and ready for release or annihilation. The title references
what is in mathematical terms, an impossible equation. The result
is 'void'; without resolution, substance, or meaning. The piece
also negates the conventions of installation, sculpture and 2D works.
It activates the space as an installation, without needing its own
room. It uses a normally dead space of the exhibition room, but
is hung on the wall like a sculpture inhabiting the space of 2D
works.
Exhibited:
2001, Humid (Dominic Molon curator), Miami, FL.
2001, Freestyle (Thelma Gordon, Christine Kim curators),
Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA. |