NYAB Event - Zerek Kempf "Weight of Fall (Waltz)"

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At Eyebeam Art & Technology Center
Media: Video installation

Installed in a street-level window, Kempf’s Weight of Fall (Waltz) erects obscuring materials that directly abut the glass: plywood, curtains, and styrofoam refuse viewing access to the space beyond the window. Kempf addresses the window’s four panels as individual units, splicing them together with a sculptural syntax that extends the logic, tricks, and techniques of film editing into the physical space of the installation.
Weight of Fall (Waltz) exploits the viewing constraints of the window to sculpturally reiterate the operative logic of the screen. Each of the installation’s four panels becomes the viewfinder of a camera, the rectangle of a monitor. Throughout the installation, Kempf addresses the dual function of such frames, using them both to bracket each scene and to address the perceptual void beyond their boundaries. This interplay between the visible and the hidden produces an elaborate choreography staged on the peripheries of spaces real, imagined, and perceived, and the space of cinematic illusion.

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