"From early on, very early on, I understood that art is not about what you say. It’s about these other things that you don’t say."
"Oppenheimer," video still (2003)
"Oppenheimer," video still, 2003
16mm film transferred to digital video, 8 minute loop.
Courtesy the artist and Max Protetch, New York.
16mm film transferred to digital video, 8 minute loop.
Courtesy the artist and Max Protetch, New York.
"What I’m doing in the film is thinking about Oppenheimer in Purgatory. So I set it in a tropical jungle. He’s standing on water, surrounded by hundred- year-old ferns, but this flora speaks of the tropics rather than of Los Alamos. And he’s caught there and the camera just revolves around him. So even though it’s a moving image (that is, it moves in time), think of it as a photograph that has time."
- Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle
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