Royal NoneSuch Gallery presents Windows: a site-specific installation by Bay Area artist Chris Fraser. Fraser constructs environments modeled on historical image-making technologies, from the camera obscura to the magic lantern. In turn, he uses these antiquated apparatuses to project ephemeral images of the surroundings. For Windows, Fraser has built a wall that diagonally bisects the gallery space. On one side of the wall there are windows with narrow apertures painted directly onto the glass. On the other side there are sheets of paper to catch the light that passes through these small openings. This ad hoc wall functions like a bank of stained glass windows, their colors determined by the weather and time of day. Fraser arrived at his practice of making site-specific room-sized camera works in order to shift the viewer’s experience of photographic image from the quotidian and fixed to experiential and in flux. Windows uses the gallery as a camera obscura, one that accommodates both observation and locomotion. At the scale of architecture, this installation allows us to invest ourselves differently—to see ourselves as belonging to space rather than possessing it
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Royal NoneSuch Gallery presents Windows: a site-specific installation by Bay Area artist Chris Fraser. Fraser constructs environments modeled on historical image-making technologies, from the camera obscura to the magic lantern. In turn, he uses these antiquated apparatuses to project ephemeral images of the surroundings. For Windows, Fraser has built a wall that diagonally bisects the gallery space. On one side of the wall there are windows with narrow apertures painted directly onto the glass. On the other side there are sheets of paper to catch the light that passes through these small openings. This ad hoc wall functions like a bank of stained glass windows, their colors determined by the weather and time of day. Fraser arrived at his practice of making site-specific room-sized camera works in order to shift the viewer’s experience of photographic image from the quotidian and fixed to experiential and in flux. Windows uses the gallery as a camera obscura, one that accommodates both observation and locomotion. At the scale of architecture, this installation allows us to invest ourselves differently—to see ourselves as belonging to space rather than possessing it
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