Vincent Zambrano "Reenactment-Ground Zero"

Orchard Windows Gallery

poster for Vincent Zambrano "Reenactment-Ground Zero"

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On September 11, 2001 at 8:40 a.m. Zambrano was coming from Clark Street, Brooklyn, on the number 2 subway line. At 8:46 a.m. American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the World Trade Center’s North Tower. His train just passed under it minutes before. When he got to my desk at work, as he sat looking at the tower in smoke it seemed unreal. Like a dream. Like a nightmare. he went downstairs to the lobby in his office building, bought a disposable camera and started to take pictures. From the horizon he could see a plane slowly coming closer to the South Tower. At 9:03 a.m. the South Tower was hit. he sat in disbelief. What just happened? At that moment everything had changed. America was under attack.

The Towers fell around 9:58 a.m. In a stage of panic, everyone had to leave by foot to get home safe. Zambrano made his way home through the Queens Borough Bridge with hundreds and hundreds of fellow New Yorkers. Once he got home, his heart was pounding and his head was spinning. In 2000, Zambrano was diagnosed with a condition called Vestibular, a balance disorder - causing vertigo. The vestibular system in your inner ear sends signals primarily to the neural structures that control our eye movements, and the muscle that keep us up right. The event of 9/11 worsened his disorder because of the stress and fear.

The images of September 11 are buried into his memory: The Twin Towers in smoke, the crumbling of the Towers, the running of the people, the stark silence of Manhattan when it was over. The installation is both a reenactment of trauma and the memory of Zambrano's disorder at that time. He wanted to explore through his art, how our visual perception has changed even as artists, because of that event - a decade later.

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from September 09, 2011 to September 23, 2011

Reception For The Artist on 2011-09-21 from 18:00 to 21:00

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