Noel Anderson Installation Peels Back Layers of History, Identity
October 1, 2007 at 7:00 pmAs visitors return to the SoFA Gallery over the course of the Timelapse exhibition, they are encountering (or uncovering) something new each time they observe Chipin du Kwiet, an installation by artist Noel Anderson. Utilizing layers of the gallery wall, Anderson is constructing (by deconstructing) history and how it relates to space. At the beginning of Timelapse, Chipin du Kwiet was space created through the application of white wallpaper, with two screenprinted felt pieces hanging as the main focus of the viewer. Over the course of the exhibition, Anderson tore down the wallpaper and the artworks attached to it in a performance, uncovering the richness of "images revealed" beneath a normally unexamined surface.
The images themselves, as well as the materials they inhabit, draw connections between the past and the present in context of the Blaknuss community. Anderson hopes that each visitor will re-examine his or her own "identities and/or histories" in relationship to his work, and as each one attempts to make whole the fragmented and complex histories layered in Chipin du Kwiet, they are likely to do just that.
View the Timelapse exhibition page.