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| Obsidian Contract 2010 vinyl text and black mirror mirror: 27 1/2 x 21 1/2 in. (69.9 x 54.6 cm) text: 9 3/4 x 7 1/2 in. (24.8 x 19.1 cm) distance from text to wall: 3 in. (7.5 cm) First exhibited at Paula Cooper Gallery, New York |
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Obsidian Contract (2010) features a legal text written backwards and reflected in a black mirror, a device which has a long tradition within witchcraft and the occult in many cultures, and was also used by landscape painters in the Romantic era to imbue a scene with a dramatic tonality.
The text proposes the exhibition space visible in the mirror as a new area of publicly-owned land, in which certain activities considered illegal in public space at different times, such as the grazing of animals or sexual activity, are made permissible.
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Obsidian Contract
Obsidian Contract
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