Vertical Gallery: Units
Program, P.1606
- Identifier
- P.1606
- Category
- Visual Arts
- Date
- May 1, 1998
- Description
- Sam Gomez's light box uses repeated transparencies of a night-time apartment building to invoke the ubiquity of modern life. This representation of a metropolitan nightmare is an allegory of modernization's reduction of the human individual to a unit within the codes of superstructures that dominate modern life. It deals with the co-existance of seduction and oppression found in modernization. Enchanting like glittering embers from a fire, or sparkling like a starlit sky, the windows simultaneously echo computer information, cursors, pixels and any other system of the technological world.