I
am not sure what to say about Daniel Phillips’s lovely time-lapse projections
of construction sites on slabs of concrete being suspended by little cranes in a
darkened gallery space. The videos are quite nice. The back-room of the gallery
featured one of his videos shot at night of a dramatically lit crumbling tower
in the woods with a wall of ice growing out of it, like a hipster squat in a
fairy tale, all nicely displayed on a clean high definition monitor. The rest
of the videos (or the actual show) were projected on large slabs of concrete,
for my liking an artistic step too far, since the rough dark concrete muddies
the visually pleasurable studies of the labor involved in construction/destruction.
As impressive as large pieces of cement supported by cranes (I actually really
liked the cranes) are in a darkened gallery, they add a level of artistic
bombast that I am not sure serves the otherwise contemplative time-lapse
videos. I just wish the work were shown more subtly on say a regular screen or
way more experientially and over-the-top like in the woods in an iced-over decrepit
building. With any luck, in time they’ll end up in a Mass MoCA installation
somewhere in Western Mass.
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