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26-JUL-2011

Visitors, MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, 2011

It was futile to attempt to photograph the entirety of artist Katharina Grosse’s vast artwork that fills an entire wing of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. Titled “one floor up more highly,” the exhibit features a vast block-long Styrofoam landscape, including a mass of white foam that resembles an iceberg from a distance. I solved the problem by leaving the exhibit itself, and photographing visitors as they move towards us through the exit doors. We can see the soaring slabs of foam through the glass, incongruously contrasting in scale to the size of the visitors. The exhibit seems to follow them as they leave, casting its reflection on the floor before them.

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