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Projections (BAM), 2018
35mm slides, carousels, lighting, and metal pins
96 in h x 48 in w x 48 in d
Installation at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY 2018
Using remnants from art history collection, Projections explores the fragility of institutional memory when faced with the transition from analog to digital imagery. As of only one or two generations ago, the art world predominately used 35mm slides to document artwork and exhibitions, filling countless carousels, projectors, and cabinets in a desire to archive and disseminate the history of art. Today’s ubiquitous and low cost digital imaging, however, has motivated major cultural institutions to digitize their slide libraries, consequently rendering vast collections obsolete. Thousands of individual slides are strung together into a large-scale installation intended to reconstruct the systems of categories, hierarchies, and chronologies that once contextualized these archives.