The Boston Phoenix, April 20, 2001
"Beam me up: Projected images"
By Randi Hopkins
When
is a wall not a wall? And what is a wall anyway? Artist Denise Marika
takes on the relationship between representation and reality at the Worcester
Art Museum, where she will create the first projected (rather than painted)
image for the acclaimed "Wall at WAM," an ongoing art program
incorporating the 67- foot terra cotta wall in the museums Renaissance
Court. Marika plans to project a video of herself, nude, as she slowly
constructs a wall in clay. Her video "wall" coincides with the
wall on which it is projected, juxtaposing the present and the past, the
fleeting and the permanent.
When
is a wall not a wall? And what is a wall anyway? Artist Denise Marika
takes on the relationship between representation and reality at the Worcester
Art Museum, where she will create the first projected (rather than painted)
image for the acclaimed "Wall at WAM," an ongoing art program
incorporating the 67- foot terra cotta wall in the museums Renaissance
Court. Marika plans to project a video of herself, nude, as she slowly
constructs a wall in clay. Her video "wall" coincides with the
wall on which it is projected, juxtaposing the present and the past, the
fleeting and the permanent.