Common Love,
Aesthetics of Becoming
April 27–June 11, 2011
Tim Hyde
The Keeper, 2006
Single-channel video, color, sound 6 min.
Courtesy the artist and Meulensteen Gallery
In The Keeper, artist Tim Hyde explores the boundaries of architecture and filmic control through an unscripted social encounter. Hyde originally set out to film a former KGB office in Kiev, Ukraine, which has been replaced by a nondescript diner. The video is entirely unscripted, and it is not clear whether the elderly woman he has happened upon wants to be filmed, or wants to prevent the film from being made. For six minutes, the silent negotiation between the woman and the camera displaces the viewer's attention from the surrounding architecture to her bodily movements.