Surveillance I, 2005-2007

Surveillance I, Motion graphics video; photo series and short story book “A day at the Pompidou”
Location: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
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This is the story of what can happen on any given day while sight seeing in Paris and taking in some of the most important galleries in the world.  On this particular day we were visiting the Centre Pompidou, home to a vast collection of modern and contemporary art works but there were things going on outside the gallery that were also getting my attention….

The video is a motion graphics piece documenting the square outside the Pompidou centre during a whole day of visiting.  The perspective starts from outside the gallery and entertainments that are taking place and moves to the inside the gallery looking out to the square as we travelled up the escalators to each level.  My subject starts with a man laying in the square.  He has a wine bottle behind him and appears to be passed out.  People and pigeons pass by seeming to not notice him at all.  As I traverse each level of the gallery I see that the man has left, yet the bottle remains.  Passers-by treat the bottle in a similarly unmindful manner.  When the bottle disappears at the top floor, the artist finds herself in an unexplainable, irrational and absurd predicament. In an attempt to bring a different conclusion to the story the artist and friends re-stage the scene in the square and get some surprising results. 

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