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Untitled (Door), 2024

Untitled (Door), 2024

video loop with asynchronous sound, 2024, RT 60 min

Untitled (Door), 2024 emerges from research on philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s architecture, following his exit from philosophy after the publication of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Images of windows, doors, walls, apertures, surfaces, slide in and out of the frame, generating unruly interiors, a symbolic search for an exit, operating within a language of intervals and sequences. An alternative to philosophy: making a house, a window, a door. In Untitled (Door), 2024, a narrow threshold opens on either side, light flows in two directions. Images slide in and out of frame, multiplied prismatically. Door, frame, shutter, iris, frame rate– Optics that speak to a sense of visual thresholds, populated by vibratory gaps. Not an image, a display of the unsteadiness of vision, with an interest in disability, restlessness, and class transformation. A new reading of Tractatus, examining the porousness of language and space, vertigo, falling, transformation, thresholds,and failure through video and text.

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Sarah Rara’s multi-disciplinary practice— including video, sound, performance, and writing— explores the position of witness within fragile systems. Their work in sound and moving image considers gender, queerness, technology, disability, and illness, in connection with environmental research. Regarding the environment as relational and invested with notions of identity, Sarah Rara’s work considers the socio-political and personal dimensions of sensing technologies. They are a primary organizer of the ongoing project lucky dragons. Their work, solo and in collaboration, has been presented at such institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art (as part of the 2008 Whitney Biennial), the Hammer Museum, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, London’s Institute for Contemporary Art, PS1 in New York, REDCAT and Human Resources in Los Angeles, MOCA Los Angeles, the 54th Venice Biennale, Documenta 14 in Athens, and the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, among others. Rara is a 2018 recipient of the LACMA Art + Technology fellowship and current artist-in-residence at Bangkok 1899, Bangkok, Thailand. Rara is Assistant Professor of Moving Image at Williams College.

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