The symmetry of a rather theatrical yet austere setup is disrupted by a single figure seated on one of two matching chairs, each placed on its own, separate platform. In front of each platform is a pedestal, each with a video camera mounted upon it. Following the symmetry of the overall piece, cables from each video camera swoop upward, attaching themselves to a computer unit dangling from the gallery ceiling. A projected video image occupies the space on the wall directly in-between the two platforms.

 

As confirmed both by the demonstrative nature of the installation itself and any empirical experimentation by the viewer, the video image performs a simple, prolonged, real-time, back and forth crossfade between the occupied and unoccupied chair. Despite this rapid decoding of the video image’s source, the actual effect of seeing the figure slowly disappearing and reappearing generates uncanny and unresolved effects of temporality and absence.