7 August 2001--7 June 2004 The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Michael Wesely
German, born 1963
2001-04
A three‑year, ultra–long‑exposure chromogenic photograph in which Michael Wesely collapsed years of construction and daily life around MoMA into a single, layered image.
At first glance it reads as a familiar cityscape of glass towers and a stone church, but repeated ghostly overlaps—scaffolding, building facades, and streaks of traffic and light—pile up like a temporal palimpsest, bathing the scene in a soft, uncanny haze.
Wesely’s yearslong exposures make the normally invisible rhythms of urban transformation visible, expanding photography’s ability to represent duration and influencing artists who probe time and process.
Medium
Chromogenic print
Dimensions
31 1/2 × 43 5/16" (80 × 110 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Purchase
Accession
477.2005.x1-x2
Palette
Exhibitions
