19 Rainstorms
Neil Goldberg
American, born 1963
1998-2003
A series of nineteen video works that quietly record pedestrians, umbrellas, and street life during rainstorms, turning fleeting, accidental encounters into low-key, time-based performances.
You first notice the rain-speckled, out-of-focus surface and smeared city lights with indistinct figures passing beneath umbrellas—a single red umbrella punctures the washed-out colors—so the street reads like a half-remembered home movie.
By using the grain, haze, and temporal unfolding of video to attend to ordinary rainy moments, Goldberg bridges documentary observation and performance, showing how everyday urban movement can read as choreography, memory, and shared experience.
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Nineteen videos (color, sound)
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3506.2005.1-19
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