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Email PageThe Purpose of all Travel
January 11, 2007- February 10, 2007
Reception: January 11, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Simon Lee
Roebling Hall
606 W 26th St Simon Lee Elephant Obscura (2006) |
Two new sets of photographs Bus Windows and StoryBoards have their genesis from the Bus Obscura (1000 pinhole cameras in an city bus moving through a neighborhood, projecting the real-time street life to the audience sitting inside). StoryBoards presents photographic evidence of all the places that the bus has traveled (Miami, New York, Kampala, Pittsburgh, London...) with each destination given a storyboard of upside down, mirrored images. A documentary of taking Bus Obscura to the Kampala International Film Festival in Uganda will be playing in the gallery.
Bus Windows reverses the gaze of the Bus Obscura and looks from the outside in – an investigation of life aboard ordinary city buses in Athens, London and Berlin. What is revealed are emotive portraits of anonymous commuters.
“The visages all have a tale to tell, however mundane. It’s hard to look away.” Anne Tschida Art Burst
Also on view will be two new video works: Fireball made from Bus Obscura footage with a sound track of people singing and humming the theme song from an old TV show about space travel; and Round the Block a circumnavigation of a market place in Masindi, Uganda, set to orginal limericks.
Lee has exhibited extensively in Europe and America including -- Brooklyn Museum of Art, Berkshire Museum, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum at Champion, Sculpture Center New York, American Academy in Rome, Kunstlerhaus Bethanian Berlin and others. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
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