REMOTE
VIEWING
Manipulated
gallery spaces. Photo © 2000
Every
image contain two different galleries found in artbooks and magazines.
The
original works in the spaces are retouched away.
Photos
of empty gallery spaces. On closer inspection however, these black &
white photos turn out to be a composition of two spaces - spaces that
to the connoisseur of art are well known as the art-establishment's significance-laden
"White Cubes". The photographs thus contain a number of associations
to the spectator's own experiences of these spaces.
At the same time they simply and concretely create a new space in which
the artist has left a way out - both metaphorically and literally - within
the field of vision. The fact that the spaces are empty brings out the
question of whether it is the high-holy art- establisment's framing of
the experience of an art-piece which defines the profile of the artist
or whether on the other hand it is the pieces of art in the exhibiting
space which defines the profile of the gallery.
(From the pressrelease by Tine Bundgaard)