Common Love,
Aesthetics of Becoming
April 27–June 11, 2011
Sean Dack
Beijing Opera House, 2008
C-print diptych; 30 x 99 1/2 in.
Included in the installation Tomorrow, Today, Yesterday, 2011
Courtesy the artist
This three-part installation by Sean Dack includes examples of two ongoing series in his practice, Ghost Hardware and the Glitch Series. The C-print diptych BOH—visually consistent with the work in the Glitch Series—consists of imagery culled from Dack's personal photos of the Beijing Opera House, in the style of travelogue photos that one might find on Flickr. Dack appropriates images and subjects them to a variety of digital manipulations. Each photograph demonstrates pixelated holes, striations, and neon fragments, forcing the viewer to decipher the content and source through its distortion.