Museum Hours 2012
A security guard working at an art museum in Vienna crosses paths with a Canadian woman in town to visit her ailing cousin.
A security guard working at an art museum in Vienna crosses paths with a Canadian woman in town to visit her ailing cousin.
In Chain, actual malls, theme parks, hotels and corporate centers worldwide are joined into a monolithic superlandscape that shapes and circumscribes the lives of two women. One is a businesswoman researching the international theme park industry for her company. The other is a young drifter, illegally living and occasionally working in a shopping mall.
An associative collection of visual impressions across fifteen chapters: a seagull in Porto, political posters in New York, an abstract painting in St. Petersburg, an abandoned video shop in Cairo and cats everywhere you look.
The memory of a person, or the memory of a place (Rhys Graham).
An observational portrait of London’s Essex Street, and the inhabitants who work the shops and throng the pavement there (Julie Murray).