Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Visual Relics (2005-2006)

Rodney Graham
Torqued Chandelier Release
2005
film still
Art Institute of Chicago

Mark Klett
Seven Moons
2006
gelatin silver print
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Raul Eduardo Stolkiner and Constanza Piaggio
Maria Alche, Ushuaia
2006
C-print
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Raul Eduardo Stolkiner and Constanza Piaggio
Ramon Teves, Ushuaia
2006
C-print
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Linda Butler
Painting and Furniture Storage, Cleveland Museum of Art
2005
C-print
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Linda Butler
European Sculpture in Storage, Cleveland Museum of Art
2005
C-print
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Robert Bergman
Untitled
ca. 2005
C-print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Robert Bergman
Untitled
ca. 2005
C-print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Robert Bergman
Untitled
ca. 2005
C-print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

David Maisel
Library of Dust 1207 II
2005
C-print
Princeton University Art Museum

David Maisel
Library of Dust 1210 (bottom)
2005
C-print
Princeton University Art Museum

David Maisel
Library of Dust 1827
2005
C-print
Princeton University Art Museum

Sean Scully
Walls of Aran
2005
gelatin silver print
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Sean Scully
Walls of Aran
2005
gelatin silver print
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Sean Scully
Walls of Aran
2005
gelatin silver print
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Marrigje de Maar
Beijing, The Cupboard
2005
Lambda print
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

"And now that I am left alone, I see
the daughter of Tyndareos clinging
to Vesta's thresholds, crouching silently
within a secret corner of the shrine;
bright conflagrations give me light as I
wander and let my eyes read everything.
For she, in terror of the Trojans – set
against her for the fall of Pergamus –
and of the Danaan's vengeance and the anger
of her abandoned husband; she, the common
Fury of Troy and of her homeland, she
had hid herself; she crouched, a hated thing,
beside the altars."

– Aeneas discovers Helen in hiding, from Book II of Virgil's Aeneid, translated by Allen Mandelbaum (1971)