TJ Wilcox

Films
T.J. Wilcox, Sadie Coles HQ, Metro Pictures (Gallery), Galerie Daniel Buchholz, 2006
Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: JRP Ringier
ISBN: 978-3905701968
Dimensions: 237mm x 286mm
This comprehensive monograph illuminates Wilcox's work in collaged movie and television footage and handmade animation--mythical romantic mini-narratives--with essays from Johanna Burton and New Yorker critic Hilton Als. Wilcox shoots in Super 8, both original footage and preexisting film from a video monitor, transfers his work to video for editing, and then to 16 millimeter for presentation. When it is shown, the sound of the projector dominates the gallery space, while the silence of the film itself indexes the impossibility of hearing the silent voices. There is no illusion of transparency, of believing one might share any kind of simple present with the characters on the screen. Instead, the transfers between formats give the collected imagery a sort of patina, suggesting not only temporal distance but also a shift in the equilibrium of the senses. 
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