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THE CURATOR: Add your own words of wisdom

POSTED: Friday, January 20, 2012, 3:00 PM

Filed Under: Arts | The Curator Visual Art

"True Stories" Using an entirely different medium, the current installation at Locks Gallery tells stories in another way — incorporating words, sound and images through video documentary. In the downstairs gallery is a multi-channel video installation by Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib. There is a soundtrack that accompanies the cut-up/looped cycle of images on several walls, and there are headphone sets which, when worn, cancel out the original track and play different ones. Reading is also required, and there’s a lot to absorb in the dark space. It’s difficult to follow the narrative, but focusing on one clip at a time gives a story in its own right.

As was the case at Wexler last week, upstairs was where I found what I really came for: the group show, "Telling Stories." Installed on the “main screen” is a series of nine documentary shorts, in the “back room” are two full-length features, and in the “main space” is one real-time project. While each is engrossing, the most intriguing piece is the real-time video. Jan Tichy’s Project Cabrini Green, set up on a singular, tiny screen and placed at eye-level on a giant wall, chronicles the 30-day demolition of a community building. Prior to the start of demolition, the artist asked children from the community to write poems about what the building meant to them. He recorded them reading their poems, and transferred the sound waves into flashes on a light spectrum. The lights, the childrens' words, were then installed in the building and you can watch them go out one by one as the building collapses. Be sure to take a look at the accompanying text that includes the poems.

Through Feb. 25, free, Locks Gallery, 600 Washington Square South, 215-629-1000, locksgallery.com.

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