SPACE:LIGHT
October 17 – November 17, 2019
The Plaxall Gallery, Long Island City, New York
Maximus Clarke – PARALLAX CITY
Influenced by the Situationist tradition, PARALLAX CITY contemplates the urban environment and the subversion of media to conjure the possibility of resistance to an oppressive status quo.
The looped anaglyph video is a sequence of wide-angle 3D views of the New York City skyline, augmented with signs, screens, logos, and digital clocks. One view fades into the next, creating a slow progression across the cityscape. The added features transform the city into a dystopian environment, blanketed by propaganda slogans and totalitarian imagery.
As the clocks hit 1300 hours (evoking the opening of Orwell’s “1984”), we reverse direction, and begin to move back across the landscape – only to discover that everything has changed. The video screens have been scrambled, the official signs have been altered to offer alternative messages, and the gloom hanging over the city has given way to shafts of sunlight – and the promise that another world is possible.
– View with anaglyph 3D glasses –
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