Biography
In my recent installation work I have designed and built architectural spaces to deconstruct the spectator/spectacle relationship of the cinema house. Unlike in a traditional cinema, where the viewer sits still while the images move, these installations force the viewer to physically enter a fictional reality, where the time, space, and narrative oscillate between perception and hallucination, interpretation and experience. Through a combined, juxtaposed use of sculptural space, painting, mirrored reflection, performance, and video projection, these works reference historic perceptual changes from the pre-cinematic era through to the digital, virtual space of the post-cinematic. Get Ready to Shoot Yourself (2009) places the viewer within the dramatic mirror maze shootout from Orson Welles’s The Lady from Shanghai. The installation juxtaposes paintings of mirrors, real mirrors, empty mirror frames, and a slow motion video projection of shattering mirrors from the original scene. This work aims to place the viewer in a conceptual “mise-en-abyme” or limitless reflection between the real and the virtual, between the images, narratives, and spaces they both imagine and inhabit.
