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Artworks
Gary Hill USA, b. 1951
Big Legs Don't Cry, 2005Single-channel video installation, silent.
Variable dimensionsAlthough relate d to the earlier serie s entitle d Liminal O bje ct s ( 1995 – 98), in which sp e cif ic iconic pairs of black-and-white, computer-...Although relate d to the earlier serie s entitle d Liminal O bje ct s ( 1995 – 98), in which sp e cif ic iconic pairs of black-and-white, computer- generate d animate d obje ct s continuou sly pa s s through one another v ia their share d ge om etrie s in v ir tual space, the work s in this re cent serie s (which include B ig Le g s D on’t Cr y, 2005; At tention, 2005; Church and State, 2005; and Sp o onful, 2005) are rendere d in color and create d sp e cif ic ally for a wide -scre en format, flat-panel 45 -inch (or larger) LCD scre en. These work s involve obje ct s that, in a sen se, v iolate each other’s b orders in unpre dictable way s, with the rep etitive interaction and circular lo gic of their movem ent sugge sting dif ferent reading s of the se veritable micro -scene s. Hinting at elem ent s of sy mb olo g y, they are “obje ct s on the thre shold of b eing som ething other than obje ct s, ‘animate d ’ in a sen se de ep er and stranger than the
te chnic al.”
In B ig Le g s D on’t Cr y, a pair of le g s, v isible only from the k ne e down and clothe d in a brown bu sine s s suit and dre s s sho e s, stand on an op en b o ok . T he page s of the b o ok pa s s through the pair of le g s, flipping and turning a s if c aught in a light fluctuating
bre eze.