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1/3/2006

Liza Lou

ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

Born Again film screening.The artist work has an immediate shock content that works on different levels: first, an acknowledgement of the work sheer aesthetic impact and secondly the slower comprehension of the labour that underlies its construction. But whereas in her earlier works the startling clarity of the image is often a counterpoint to the lengthy process of its realization, for the execution of Cell, she further slowed down the process by using beads of the smallest variety with their holes all facing up in an exacting hour-by-hour approach in order to ‘use time as an art material’.

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