Intrusions – A Ghost From The Future
24″ x 29″ ACM (Aluminum Composite Material) frame, Plexiglass print, flatscreen 32″ Monitor, 04:00 mins Single channel HD Video
2014 – 2022
This work explores architectural space through time. It investigates memory, collective memories and imagined ones. The artist is an intruder, she intrudes the old photographs, climbs through the windows, stands on chairs brushes her hands against the walls where crowded bookshelves once stood but are today only bare walls, in a desire to experience history, not through reading about it, but by moving through it like a time traveler.
This work includes 32″ flat screen monitor with a ACM (Aluminum Composite Material) frame and 4 glass photos mounted directly on to the monitor. The prints are from the 1920’s and are of private rooms in the Wave Hill estate in the Bronx NY. The video playing on the monitor can be seen through the old prints. In this video the artist appears like a ghost from the future, walking in the same rooms as in the vintage photos, almost a century later, as if intruding into the 1920s photos.
The rooms were once private rooms inhabited by the likes of Mark Twain, Arturo Toscanini, and Bashford Dean’s private armor collection that was later donated to the Metropolitan Museum Of Art. In the photos these rooms are full of furniture and private belongings, but in the video shot in 2014, the rooms are empty public spaces, the only things that haven’t changed a century later are the walls, windows and fireplaces.
The work was initiated during the Wave Hill winter workspace residency in 2014.
The soundtrack is from Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca (1940) by Franz Waxman, with The Royal Scottish National Orchestra. The house in the film Rebecca resembles Wave Hill, Both mansions are located on a cliff. In Rebecca the housekeeper guides a new wife through the rooms of the mansion adding details about the former wife who mysteriously died.
The work was initiated during the Wave Hill winter workspace residency in 2014.
The soundtrack is from Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca (1940) by Franz Waxman, with The Royal Scottish National Orchestra. The house in the film Rebecca resembles Wave Hill, Both mansions are located on a cliff. In Rebecca the housekeeper guides a new wife through the rooms of the mansion adding details about the former wife who mysteriously died.
