PAI San Francisco, CA
November 9-January 15 2013
Test Negative
2012
Installation
I. Novartis-2
II. Novartis-3
III. Novartis +UCSF
“… all these layers
of meaning and form, of visibility and invisibility lie in one another, on or
under one another, before or behind one another; but the truth of this relation
is never established, never stabilized in any judgment. “
Jacques Derrida- Psyche Inventions
of the Other Vol 2
The interrelated pieces of the installation are structures
constructed of discarded objects from
the research laboratories of Novartis, images
of these individual objects and their sections, and images from breast cancer research conducted at UCSF.
Each piece draws on one of its elements as the resource
for the others.
In a row, successive translucent and opaque objects are stacked on top of each other
creating layers through which the video images radiate from the bottom.
The tension created this way is between the layers,
between clarity and obscurity, between object (material) and image (optical appearance). While the objects
provide a solid, static structure the images
are pulsating, changing and moving forward.
Neither the objects nor images have been altered or
manipulated from their original states, but rather, systematically and
deliberately combined into a new whole.
Theodora Varnay Jones
Penny Olson
The video portion of the piece can be seen online at http://www.pennyolson.com
Special thanks to Rosa Anna DeFilippis UCSF
Installation View-1
Installation View-2
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