KIOSK: Jim Campbell
Jim Campbell (USA)
Home Movies 300-1, 2006-2008
Custom electronics, curtain of 300 LEDs (152,4 cm x 139,7 cm x 7,6 cm)
Collection of the artist, Courtesy Hosfelt Gallery
Jim Campbell explores the distinction between the analogue world and its digital representation as a metaphor for the human ability for poetic understanding or "knowledge" as opposed to the mathematics of "data". In the recent Home Movie, Campbell abstracts the data even further while manipulating our voyeuristic tendencies by revealing information and at the same time obscuring it. The pixilated imagery is turned away from the viewer, toward the wall. There is no longer a visible "image", only the reflection of an image.
Jim Campbell (USA) is part of the KIOSK-gallery, curated by Yves Bernard and Domenico Quaranta.
