VIEWPOINT

2007 / EVERARD READ / JOHANNESBURG

In this beautifully dissembling work by Alexandra Ross, there are four planes of visible experience: there is the domain of the imagined real world, which the viewpoint installation seems to obliterate; there is the ontology of the original object, photographed in an earlier time; there is the reflective and mediating glass surface through which the camera looked in time past; and finally, there is the rich epistemology of the present, with the viewer becoming conscious of the weight of her body in a sparse room, the whisper of visitors, and the materiality of the reflective presences in the plexiglass of the works now directly before you. Between these subtle and lasting impressions, there is only the experience of time.

David Bunn, Excerpt from This is Not a Window, Exhibition Catalogue, 2007

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