10. Harlem Turrell (series) photography
*The title is the date and hour (Harlem Turrell Series)
Process:
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*The title is the date and hour (Harlem Turrell Series)
_ Inkjet Print Fine Art Paper
24 x 36"
Edition of 5
New York, 2013 - 2018
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The Harlem Turrell series is constituted by photographs of the sky as seen through the opening that exists between the buildings 772 and 778 at Saint Nicholas Avenue in Harlem, a few steps from the 149th Street entrance to the A and C trains, and on the way to the artist’s studio in Harlem. The pictures are shared in social media using the hashtag #harlemturrell or #turrelldoharlem; and each photo is titled with the time and date in which it was taken.
The series started in 2013 and has so far accumulated around three hundred photos. And it exists as an exercise on photography’s possibility to record an attributive action, and as a way of questioning the boundaries of authorship, the limits between art and reality, the limits to the Duchampian and Warholian ideas on the artist’s power to attribute to an object - or a place - the status of a work of art, in other words the limits to the idea of transfiguration; the limits to modernity’s effort to reach a pure visuality as a means to achieve universal beauty – as represented by the work of an artist such as James Turrell. In short, an action of appropriation and postproduction that applies the logics of James Turrell works from the “Skyspaces” series, to a historic building in Harlem, in order to produce a work that emerges from the collision of those two elements.




Process:
A. The Arundel Court Building: Is located at at 772-778 St. Nicholas Avenue in Harlem, and it was built by Henri Fouchaux's in 1905, it features the masking of the newly mandated light-court with an arch and recessing fire escapes in subordinate archways.

















