25 March 2016

Black Box (images NSFW)

Now on display at Solodonna is an exhibition by Terry Gold entitled Black Box (take the teleporter at the landing point). It is, on a certain level, about the artist's process as much as her end results: we see strikingly well composed and often beautiful photographs, both color and monotone, but we also see the sets or constructed environments in which they were taken. For example, the razor blades below, into which one can walk or cam, were used to construct the resulting image above on the far left, and both are presented in Black Box as independent but interrelated artworks.

And it is quite dark: visitors should take care to enable advanced lighting model, set their draw distance to a maximum of 90 meters, and use the Ambient Dark setting. To view the installation, which winds through several spaces, one follows a narrow blue wayfinding line on the floor, and there are places where it's easy to lose one's way. (Upon reaching the teardrops, be sure to find a small three-paneled doorway behind them that leads to a larger and final gallery.)

Wandering through the darkness, our sense of depth is compromised, and it's often fascinatingly difficult to at first discern what is two-dimensional and what is three-dimensional. Although the majority of the images are nudes, exploring the human form with light and shadow, they for the most part are not sexual: Terry's body in the photographs is often shiny, white, and bald (sometimes a doll), stripping away potential eroticism. Black Box will remain on display until Saturday, April 4.

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