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Sat Oct 25, 2008 - Sun Feb 8

Sightings

The Ecology of an Art Museum A Video Installation by Shimon Attie


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Date and Time
de Young Museum
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive
San Francisco, CA 94118 map
district: Golden Gate Park

Sat Oct 25, 2008 (9:30am - 5:15pm, till 8:45pm on Fri)
Sun Oct 26, 2008 (9:30am - 5:15pm, till 8:45pm on Fri)
Mon Oct 27, 2008 (9:30am - 5:15pm, till 8:45pm on Fri)
Tue Oct 28, 2008 (9:30am - 5:15pm, till 8:45pm on Fri)
Thu Oct 30, 2008 (9:30am - 5:15pm, till 8:45pm on Fri)

Description
Sightings is a multiple-channel, high-definition video installation that explores the relationship between works of art and museum visitors and staff. Attie’s particular interest is giving visual form to the heightened moment of mutual encounter between art viewer and art object. The exhibition is part of the museum’s Collection Connections series, which invites artists to create new work that reinterprets traditional objects from the FAMSF collections.

Shimon Attie is best known for his installations that incorporate projected photography and other media into and onto architectural sites. Attie’s past works have given visual form to memory and the human imagination by animating public sites with images of their lost histories, and in more recent years by creating multiple-channel video installations for museum and gallery exhibitions. He often explores questions of memory, place, and identity and the themes of layered and buried histories.