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James Casebere
Floor Flooded Arches from the Right, 1999
Cibachrome on perspex, 154 x 122 x 4 cm, ed. 5
»You know, part of my program early on was that the seams had to show. That you
would suspend disbelief when looking at the object or the image, but the way it was
made still had to be clear to the viewer. My models were always clearly models. This
is a Constructivist idea; you don't hide the construction. It's a Godardian idea, too.
This is a value that he held as a filmmaker: you allow the viewer to step back and
have a certain critical distance from the experience. You're not swept away emotionally
by the heat of the moment the way you are with a filmmaker like Spielberg. […]
I would [consider myself more modernist than postmodern] now. I confuse the issue
a bit with Monticello and the pink hallway. But, otherwise, yes. I went through that
period of thinking about sign systems instead of space and light. But I'm interested
in both, at this point. Not Postmodernism per se, but some of the issues involved.«
- James Casebere by Roberto Juarez, in Bomb Magazine (no.177, Fall 2001)
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