Monday, January 15, 2024

Visual Relics (2002-2005)

Nicholas Nixon
Self, Brookline
2003
gelatin silver print
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Barney Taxel
Louise Van Cleve Strong
2004
pigment print
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

James Welling
#17
2004
C-print
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Vik Muniz
Elizabeth Taylor
2004
C-print
Princeton University Art Museum

Keith Carter
Thirty Plates
2004
gelatin silver print
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Loretta Lux
Paulin
2002
C-print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Desiree Dolron 
Librario Escuela Julio Mella (Cuba)
ca. 2003
C-print
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Mark Edwards
Rotting Apples
2004
C-print
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Terry Evans
Red Buildings, East Chicago, Indiana
2003
inkjet print
Art Institute of Chicago

Candida Höfer 
Riesenrundgemälde, Innsbruck
2004
C-print
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Lynn Geesaman
Damme, Belgium
2004
inkjet print
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Vesna Pavlović
Lobby inside the Chase One Plaza Building, Manhattan
ca. 2003-2005
inkjet print
Princeton University Art Museum

Vesna Pavlović
Plant Life II inside the Chase One Plaza Building, Manhattan
ca. 2003-2005
inkjet print
Princeton University Art Museum

Vesna Pavlović
Salon of the Socialist Republic of Serbia
inside the Federal Executive Council Building, Belgrade

ca. 2003-2005
inkjet print
Princeton University Art Museum

Jeff Wall
A View from an Apartment
2004-2005
transparency in lightbox
Tate Gallery

John Riddy
Shin Fuji (Street)
2005
C-print
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

"He wastes no words, no time on useless questions –
but drawing heavy sighs from deep within, 
'Ah, goddess-born, take flight,' he cries, 'and snatch
yourself out of these flames. The enemy
has gained the walls; Troy falls from her high peak.
Our home, our Priam – these have had their due:
could Pergamus be saved by any prowess,
then my hand would have served. But Troy entrusts
her holy things and household gods to you;
take them away as comrades of your fortunes,
seek out for them the great walls that at last,
once you have crossed the sea, you will establish.'
So Hector speaks: then from the inner altars
he carries out the garlands and great Vesta
and, in his hands, the fire that never dies."

– Aeneas is addressed by Hector's shade, from Book II of Virgil's Aeneid, translated by Allen Mandelbaum (1971)