It feels compulsory, or like a knot in myself that is constantly being untangled. I feel as though it’s something that I have to make. The whole thing fell into my lap by chance, as these things do. Marley Trigg Stewart: In terms of motivation, that word “auto-curiosity” you mentioned really sums it up. But maybe you can tell me a little of your motivations. You don’t need to tell me if I’m right or wrong, art being an occasion for interpretation. So if this is a road trip it is also a time trip, a memory trip, an inward trip. Analog photographs, perhaps made with a faulty camera, leaking light onto the film, leaving saturated color washes (a set of visual associations float around such faults: hazy memory, melancholy, yearning, mystery.) There’s an erotics here too, asserted yet left undefined, bound up with auto-curiosity, also undefined. Solitary but somehow haunted, or at least preoccupied with a man from the past. A first-person road trip in the USA, probably heading west. 50, 2022: The Hills Keep Burning in Californiaĭavid Campany: Marley, when I look at the images that make up your project The Hills Keep Burning in California, and reading nothing about them but the title, this is what I sense. Marley Trigg Stewart in Conversation with David Campany In his characteristically analytical and associative manner, writer and curator David Campany takes the reader through the history and implications of Photopath, and their place in the breadth of Victor Burgin’s art and theoretical writings.Ĭomments Off on Victor Burgin’s Photopath Marley Trigg Stewart in Conversation with David Campany Embracing Minimalism and Conceptual art, performance and site-specific installation, there is no other artwork like Photopath. Each time it was exhibited, it had to be made anew, unique to its setting. Photographs printed actual size of objects and prints attached to the floor so that images are perfectly congruent with their objects.’ With these words of instruction, typed on a humble card in 1967, Victor Burgin conceived one of the most profound and remarkable works of photographic art. ‘A path along the floor, of proportions 1×21 units, photographed. Victor Burgin’s Photopath, by David Campany
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