Approach, 1999
Four-channel DVD
Color, sound
Four airport monitors suspended in custom enclosures with ceiling mounts
09:00 min., loop

Collection Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
Collection Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Exhibitions

Vanishing Point, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, 2005
Busan Biennial, Korea [curated by Ai-Ryung Kim], 2002
Approach, Projektraum, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, 2000
Media City, Seoul Biennial, Korea [curated by Barbara London], 2000
Approach, Henry Urbach Architecture, New York, 1999

Filmed at John F. Kennedy Airport, passengers arriving from long-haul flights enter the terminal looking for contact with someone familiar. The footage was shot on camcorders equipped with telephoto lenses and slowed down to emphasize the moment of transition that each subject experiences as they arrive. The installation consists of 4 screens, with a 1-second delay between the identical images in each screen.

Reviews

Ken Johnson, ‘Vanishing Point’, The New York Times, June 3, 2005
Evelyne Jouanno, ‘Approach’, Intervista, Vol. IV, No. 24, Fall-Winter 2001
Eleanor Heartney, ‘Circuit City, Art in America, January 2001
Fiona Bradley, ‘Media City Seoul Review’, Flash Art, January/February 2001
Shonagh Adelman, ‘Marco Brambilla, Henry Urbach Architecture’, frieze, March 2000
Thad Ziolkowski, ‘Reviews: Marco Brambilla, Henry Urbach Architecture’, Artforum, January 2000
Alexi Worth, ‘Galleries–Chelsea’, The New Yorker, November 22, 1999