2008
Installation consisting of three parts
Three Kinds
2008
Site-specific installation
Aluminum venetian blinds, moving spotlight, floodlight
Three Kinds in Transition
2008
Projection on Apple 30-inch Cinema Display
473 images, played in loop
Three Kinds in Repetition
2008
Two round mirrors, hole cut in wall
Approx. diameter of each: 60 cm
Installation view of LIFE ON MARS, 55th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
Curated by Douglas Fogle
May 3, 2008 – January 11, 2009
Photos: Tom Little
Courtesy: Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin, Germany
The most complex of the artist’s blind installations, Three Kinds introduced the use of highly shaped venetian blinds in
elongated hexagonal and octagonal forms. Each blind element was hung in groupings of three that share a vibrant hue
(like the colors of a sporting team): pink, yellow, purple, brown, green, blue, and bright orange. These groupings were
interconnected by a metal armature. Each “face” of the blind has a prismlike or windmill pattern. Three floodlights
suspended from the ceiling sent shafts of light onto the floor. Additionally, three moving lights spinning smoothly in
the space changed the atmosphere and character of the installation, creating a complex overlay of shifting colors and
patterns. On the back gallery wall were three circular forms of similar size: two round mirrors and a hole cut in the
wall that exposed a hidden work area lit in red filled with tools, equipment, and other leftover construction materials.
While the hidden room mediates a literal place of work, the rest of the gallery created a metaphorical cosmic space
in which geometric and polygonal forms are constantly transforming and evolving. Presented apart from the rest of
the installation, Three Kinds in Transition operated as a lost puzzle embodying an abstract idea about intrinsic movement.
Images of similar shape and proportion—globes, basketballs, soccer balls, and polyhedral origami objects—dissolve and
morph into one another. The transitions between the spherical forms underscored a search for constancy and movement,
transformation and evolution, specificity and universality.