Between 1997 and 1998, Bacher installed a closed-circuit video camera in the office of Pat Hearn, a gallerist who helped cultivate downtown New York’s thriving art scene. The camera transmitted a live feed of Hearn’s daily activities to a monitor in her gallery. At the time, she was undergoing treatment for cancer. After Hearn’s death in 2000, Bacher used thousands of stills from the footage to assemble a collage of stop-motion sequences. With this work, Bacher used animation to create an “illusion of life” that both memorializes a colleague and friend and captures the instability of our perceptions of time.

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2024

Medium Video (color, silent)
Duration 40 min.
Credit Contemporary Arts Council of The Museum of Modern Art
Object number 70.2014
Department Media and Performance

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