The Vanishing
Artist
Julia Hechtman
(American, born 1969)
Date2008
Mediumsingle channel video, running time one minute
ClassificationsDigital Art
Credit LineHelen Sagoff Slosberg Fund
Object number2010.11
Label TextThe Vanishing begins in an unidentifiable landscape and ends in the vast space of the mind. Julia Hechtman’s narrative of erasure, closely linked to cycles of the natural world pictured, is also a poignant commentary on the capacity of memory to hold onto and re-create images of our past. The digital disappearance of a lone tree results not in a complete absence but in an afterimage, ghostlike but visible nonetheless. Because Hechtman includes us as witnesses to this “reverse” animation process, the trace left behind functions not as the visualization of “tree” so much as the mark of time upon our imaginations.ProvenanceArtist; Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MAOn View
Not on view
2022
