Haunting and strangely provocative new installations by artist Gary
Hill, celebrated worldwide in major museums and galleries, are
introduced through a highly readable essay by two of the artist's
long-time poet/artist collaborators. In a sort of lineup, seventeen
day-workers, full-size, stare at you from the wall, eerily present by
the magic of video-projection (Viewer). A solitary Native American
stares you in the eyes, while he stares at himself from an adjacent
wall-then the projections switch position: the watcher becomes the
watched and the watched becomes the watcher (Standing Apart). This third
in an ongoing series of the Quasha & Stein dialogue on Gary Hill is
beautifully illustrated in full color to give a living sense of the
actual installations.