ELLIE KRAKOW
Shine, 2009
My work uses known genres in askew or backwards ways in order to force the imagination to attempt to see something that is not fully represented. I am interested in how the experience of trying to see, in its curious engagement and inherent failure, parallels the experience of witnessing something secondhand as we do with history and memory. Shine twists the romantic movie genre, replacing the lovers’ bodies with lights, and the story with a narration that sets up visual expectations that can only be fulfilled in the viewer’s imagination.
