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23/1/2004

Aernout Mik

Herbert F. Johnson Museum, New York

Aernout Mik: Reversal Room

Completed in 2001, Reversal Room is Aernout Mik’s most complex video installation to date. The presentation at the Johnson Museum will be its premier in the United States. It is installed within a circular construction juxtaposing two scenes: one takes place in a restaurant, and the other in a kitchen. Each scene was recorded simultaneously on five cameras using untrained actors and constructed sets. Featuring five floor-to-shoulder video projections, Reversal Room completely surrounds viewers with slowly rotating, synchronized tableaux, creating the impression that they are situated in the middle of the events. In Mik’s works, people do not interact with one another. Intentions are not clear, and activities have patterns but no beginning or end. Most strikingly, there is no dialogue. At times inexplicable or disquieting, Mik’s installations examine the dynamics of the social, political, and aesthetic relationships of everyday life, questioning, in Mik’s own words, ''the blown-up sense of individuality in Western cultures.''

This exhibition is funded in part by the contribution of the Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam. This grant is made available from the Netherlands Culture Fund of the Dutch Ministries for Foreign Affairs and Education, Culture and Science.

The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art is located on the Cornell campus in Ithaca, New York. It houses Cornell's art collection, which was begun in the 1880s by Cornell's first president, Andrew Dickson White

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