This is the last week to enjoy the work of designer Bess Krietemeyer as part of Architecturally.../ a series of installations on display at the Hendershot Gallery in Chelsea. Krietemeyer's installation is a video which approximates the effects of a daylighting system she has been developing as part of her doctoral research at Rensselaer Polytechnic. In this instance however, she leaves the science behind to create a video installation which is a stand alone work in itself. The video feels like a contemporary update of Edward Hopper paintings like Room in Brooklyn or Night Windows, as we the viewer find ourselves again staring out a triptych of windows that might appear in an a typical brownstone apartment. Unlike in a Hopper where we look out on the shock of modernity, in Krietemeyer's video our view is obstructed by a white gridded field making wave-like pulsations across the windows. This time we are wrapped in a strange technological membrane which produces the same sense of melancholy and isolation that Hopper's figure always seem to exude.
The video takes us through a twenty-four hour period of daylight and dark which effect the grid's constantly changing speed and aperture. The result is atmospheric, haunting and not to be missed.
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