CCTV
sculpture
real time video,
monitor 6”
variable dimensions
2023
A work of art is filmed by a surveillance camera in an unspecified exhibition space, an anonymous white cube whose location is unknown. The presence of a microphone placed in the space betrays its anonymity, allowing children playing, cars passing and dogs barking to be heard in the distance. Of the public, understood both as recipient of the work of art and as the collective context that generated it, remains just a distant and ghostly echo in the aseptic space into which the work has retreated.
Without coordinates of any kind, the viewer is required to take a leap of faith to believe that what is shown to him, in real time, through a screen, is true. The sculpture exists only in relation to the image that the video camera produces, continuously, 24 hours a day, for the entire duration of the exhibition. At the end of the stream, the sculpture consequently ceases to exist.
CCTV sculpture - installation view - Magazzini Ligabue, Venezia - 2023
CCTV sculpture - installation view - Magazzini Ligabue, Venezia - 2023
CCTV sculpture - Still from live streaming