Bandshells

These compositions elegantly overcome the pointed discrepancy between what a photograph is and what it is “of.” Sitting atop the horizon line that bisects each image, the bandshells conflate the perspectival recession of the visual with the eddying projection of the aural. As the silence that is germane to the medium becomes figurally pervaded with sound, it gives way to an aesthetic that is autonomous, in that it resists translation into words but is not apolitical. Like Bernard’s earlier photographs, these position the viewer not to one side or the other so much as right in between: between production and reception, picture and sound, the aesthetic and the social – at the very sites where culture is negotiated. – Jan Tumlir, Artforum, March 2005

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