Untitled
Josh Tonsfeldt American
Not on view
To create Untitled, Tonsfeldt peeled away the skin-like layers of diffusion and prism film through which the images on a flat screen television are normally projected. When these layers are removed, the LCD display still functions, but improperly: white visual data is invisible but black and color can still be seen against the monitor's lighting grid. Onto a wrinkled bit of black clothing inserted into the television, Tonsfeldt projects a moving image of a hand manipulating a light that makes the monitor appear to breathe. Surrounded by other bits of fabric and organic material such as seeds, vine tendrils, and grape stems, the assemblage has a hypnotic, science fiction quality--as if the viewer is looking back from the future onto a carcass of direct, unmediated experience, somehow still flickering with life.
