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January 11, 2007- February 17, 2007
Reception: January 13, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Tim Hyde
Max Protetch
511 W 22nd St
 Tim Hyde Still from"The Keeper" (2006) |
Invisible City (2005), 5 minutes, single channel projection
Invisible City echoes the Italo Calvino novel in which Marco Polo recounts his travels to the reclusive emperor Kublai Khan. Marco Polo reenacts the places he has seen through "gestures, leaps, cries of wonder and horror, animal barking or hootings..." Hyde filmed Invisible City the first night he arrived in Belarus, recording an uncanny sequence of encounters in a city that does not feel wholly real. Like Marco Polo's performance, the work reconstructs an experience of strangeness, of being a stranger.
The Keeper (2006), single channel video
Hyde describes The Keeper as "an inverted portrait in which the traditional function of figure and background are reversed." The video is asingle shot of an anonymous elderly woman framed by the monolithic architecture of a fast-food restaurant that was once the local office of the KGB in Kiev, Ukraine. The video is a silent negotiation between the artist and the woman standing inches from the camera, intentionally blocking its view.
Video Panorama of New York City in March of 2006 During Which the Camera Fails to Distinguish the City From a Snowstorm (2006 – 2007), continuous loop, seven channel video
Video panorama… was filmed from the top floor of an apartment building throughout a seven hour snowstorm in New York City. The seven screen panorama reinterprets the visual language of the sublime in the context of the camera’s breakdown in interpretation as it repeatedly tried to decipher the disappearing city.
Tim Hyde received an MFA in visual arts at Columbia University in 2005. His work has been included in Balance and Power: Performance and Surveillance in Video Art, curated by Michael Rush, and the 2006 Busan Biennale and he participated in the Lost Highway Expedition, organized by Marjetica Potrc and Kyong Park in 2006. His work is included in the collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, The Ulrich Museum of Art, and the Margulies Collection.
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