subject-like object-image-thing; Aura Portraits (2016), GCGCA(i)

Aura Portraits

Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco

22 Dec 2016 - 20 Mar 2017

Art works are image-like
Art works participate in the structure of the image. They represent an aporia of action, between the experience of the detemporalised, interruptive stasis of the image and the necessary narrative temporality of meaningful action. Action gains its meaning as event - as an irreducibly narrative category establishing relations between past present and future, from the standpoint of human agency.

Subjects are image-like
The gap between stasis and narrativity is an existential-ontological gap reflecting the same structure as the concept of the subject, as the name for the ground of the unity of an act; as the fractured togetherness of the future and the past. Life is lived in 'the present’ as the disjunctive unity of the future flowing into the past. Life can only be understood backwards (via narrative reconstruction), but must be lived forwards - imagistically?

Art Critical/Historical References
Victor Burgin: Love Stories #2 (1996)
Andy Warhol: Screen Tests (1964-1966)
McDermott & McGough, Cheim & Read, Suspicious of Rooms Without Music or Atmosphere 1/17 - 2/23 (2013) [Retroactive]

Aura Portrait (3); Aura Portraits (2016), GCGCA(i)