7 August 2001--7 June 2004 The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Michael Wesely
German, born 1963
2001-04
A chromogenic print made by Michael Wesely after leaving a camera open from August 7, 2001, to June 7, 2004, to condense years of light, weather, and construction around MoMA into a single photographic record.
At first glance you see a familiar city skyline, but the picture is haunted by layered façades, diagonal streaks of light, and faint, blurred movement that make the passage of months and changing skies feel physically present.
By stretching exposure over years, Wesely challenges photography’s instantaneity and opened a way of seeing time itself as a sculptural, documentary subject in contemporary art.
Medium
Chromogenic print
Dimensions
31 1/2 × 37" (80 × 94 cm)
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Credit
Purchase
Accession
474.2005.x1-x2
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