Public Art Instalations
Reuben Fisher
"Reuben Fischer followed with a film piece, choosing to block off the main gallery space, instead using the foyer to present the work. A super 8 film segment was looped and screened behind the closed gallery door, onto a piece of perspex, and viewed through a peephole. The film contained a time-lapse record of a bright red flower opening. The image was seductive with the luscious colourings and the ‘come hither’ unfuling of the flower taking hold of the viewer, much like the siren’s effect on unwary sailors. The peephole was also a fisheye lens, obscuring the image and creating an illusion of depth. The voyeuristic nature of the work was repeated in both the viewing through the peephole and the viewing of those viewing through the peephole."
PeekRebecca Hackemann
"Peek is a storefront installation of the artist's stereoscopes, which make certain participatory demands upon the viewer, to gaze into the twin eyeholes to see the art—and when facing the images contained inside, one is also called upon to read the messages that accompany them, putting together the separate elements of a complicated esthetic event that is both imagistic and linguistic at the same time. Each of the collages in her stereoscopes is part quandary and part parable."
