2 Wall Sections
Paul Harrison
British, born 1966
John Wood
British, born Hong Kong 1969
1998
A one-minute, ten‑second color video with sound in which two almost identical men execute a quiet, awkward action—one pressing the other against a white gallery wall—to explore balance, dependence, and the body as a sculptural object.
What hits you is the clinical whiteness of the gallery and the uncanny, slow choreography: a man seemingly held midair by his double, a tense, intimate negotiation of weight and contact.
By turning a live, bodily interaction into a minimal, repeatable image, the work links performance and video to a late‑20th‑century impulse to treat the human body as material and to question the boundaries between sculpture, action, and the museum space.
Medium
Video (color, sound)
Dimensions
1:10 min.
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of the artists
Accession
564.2004
Palette
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