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an Archive for the Lost Ones
(1993) Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver Canada.
Curated by Keith Wallace;
Catalog essay by Barbara Burkhardt.
A large aluminum light table in the center of the gallery displays the archive, two oak boxes holding 72 glass plates. The visitor can recombine titles and images. The units recall medical specimens and photographic plates.
Light spills onto the floor from under the table. On the back wall projections detailing the wooden shelves and cast iron stair-ways of an old archive in Den Haag can be seen. A series of small intensely saturated images are projected near the floor. At times there is a still image of Duchamp’s hand reaching for a chess piece and moving it across the board.