Archæology in Reverse — Catherine Wagner

Archæology in Reverse — Catherine Wagner

Archæology in Reverse

2018

Focused on the intellectual and physical frame of the art museum, Catherine Wagner’s ambitious project exposes normally unseen corners of Mills College Art Museum (MCAM). Wagner’s previous photographic and public art works reveal architecture as a source of social construction, particularly in museums where architecture frames and guides how visitors see and interact with objects that inhabit the space. Refocusing the attention and experience of the viewer, Archaeology in Reverse explores the museum as a cultural, social, and experiential lens. As a photographer long interested in the phenomenon of light, Wagner examines the possibilities of physically transforming the museum’s ceiling and gallery walls into a series of apertures.

Archæology in Reverse

Archæology in Reverse

Archæology in Reverse

Archæology in Reverse

Archæology in Reverse

Archæology in Reverse

Archæology in Reverse

Archæology in Reverse

Archæology in Reverse

Archæology in Reverse

Archæology in Reverse

Archæology in Reverse

Archæology in Reverse

Archæology in Reverse

Archæology in Reverse

Archæology in Reverse

Archæology in Reverse

Archæology in Reverse I

68 x 118.5 inches. Chromogenic Print. 2018.

Archæology in Reverse

Archæology in Reverse II

70.5 x 90.88 inches. Chromogenic Print. 2018.

Archæology in Reverse

Intervention I MCAM

37.5 x 50 inches. Archival pigment print. 2017.

Archæology in Reverse

Intervention II MCAM

37.5 x 50 inches. Archival pigment print. 2018.

Archæology in Reverse

Roof Typology

90 x 90 inches. Archival pigment print. 2018.

Archæology in Reverse

Apertura Blue I & II.

Installation View. 2018.

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Apertura Blue I

Installation view. 2018.

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Laws of Reflection I

Installation view. 2018.

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Laws of Reflection I

Installation view (details). 2018.

Archæology in Reverse

Installation view. 2018.

Archæology in Reverse

Archæology in Reverse I

Installation view. 2018.

Archæology in Reverse

Blue Geospatial

Installation View. 2018.

Archæology in Reverse

Roof Typology and Laws of Reflection II & III

Installation view. 2018.

Archæology in Reverse

Laws of Reflection I

Installation view (details). 2018.

Archæology in Reverse

Apertura Blue II

Installation view. 2018.

Archæology in Reverse

Archæology in Reverse II & Laws of Reflection I & II

Installation view. 2018.