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Review: Diana Thater: The Sympathetic Imagination

Review: Diana Thater: The Sympathetic Imagination Downloaded from http://afterimage.ucpress.edu/ on December 5 2019 EXHIBITION REVIEW Diana Thater: The Sympathetic Imagination In the LACMA installation, one project seamlessly transitions LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART into another through the careful framing of sight lines. This fore- NOVEMBER 22, 2015–FEBRUARY 21, 2016 shadowing is constructed via video overflow and glowing colors that beckon viewers deeper and deeper within the spaces. Thater Diana Thater’s exhibition The Sympathetic Imagination at the Los carefully directs the viewer’s path through her exhibition. It begins Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an installation of in- in LACMA’s Art of the Americas building with Six-Color Video Wall stallations. In this first museum survey spanning twenty-five years (2000), a work that appropriates National Aeronautics and Space of Thater’s work, rather than recreate her chronological develop- Administration footage of the sun, presenting it on cube monitors ment, the exhibition flows both within the museum and across in the six primary and secondary colors of video: red, green, blue the world, moving from Monet’s gardens at Giverny, France, to and cyan, magenta, and yellow. In the next room, viewers encoun- Chernobyl, Ukraine, to Jaipur, India, as viewers traverse the LACMA ter Thater’s 2001 installation knots http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism University of California Press

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University of California Press
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© 2015 Afterimage/Visual Studies Workshop, unless otherwise noted. Reprints require written permission and acknowledgement of previous publication in Afterimage.
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2578-8531
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10.1525/aft.2016.43.5.26
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Downloaded from http://afterimage.ucpress.edu/ on December 5 2019 EXHIBITION REVIEW Diana Thater: The Sympathetic Imagination In the LACMA installation, one project seamlessly transitions LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART into another through the careful framing of sight lines. This fore- NOVEMBER 22, 2015–FEBRUARY 21, 2016 shadowing is constructed via video overflow and glowing colors that beckon viewers deeper and deeper within the spaces. Thater Diana Thater’s exhibition The Sympathetic Imagination at the Los carefully directs the viewer’s path through her exhibition. It begins Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an installation of in- in LACMA’s Art of the Americas building with Six-Color Video Wall stallations. In this first museum survey spanning twenty-five years (2000), a work that appropriates National Aeronautics and Space of Thater’s work, rather than recreate her chronological develop- Administration footage of the sun, presenting it on cube monitors ment, the exhibition flows both within the museum and across in the six primary and secondary colors of video: red, green, blue the world, moving from Monet’s gardens at Giverny, France, to and cyan, magenta, and yellow. In the next room, viewers encoun- Chernobyl, Ukraine, to Jaipur, India, as viewers traverse the LACMA ter Thater’s 2001 installation knots

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Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural CriticismUniversity of California Press

Published: Mar 1, 2016

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