Trevor Paglen Exhibition
Bellwether
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For the past several years, Trevor Paglen has been working with observational data from amateur astronomers to track and photograph nearly 200 classified American objects in Earth orbit. Depicting everything from football-field sized eavesdropping spacecraft 23,000 miles above earth to photoreconnaissance satellites with names like “IKON” and “ADVANCED CRYSTAL,” Paglen’s “Other Night Sky” series reveals a very different sky than the one most of us see when we look up at the stars on a clear evening.
Trained as both an artist and geographer, Trevor Paglen is a conceptual artist, landscape photographer, and an explorer. For nearly a decade, Paglen has researched, written about, and visualized the secret corners of the American state. Whether researching front companies spearheading the CIA’s “extraordinary rendition” program, photographing classified air bases in the Great Basin, knocking on the doors of unacknowledged “black site” prisons, or tracking top-secret spacecraft in Earth orbit, Paglen’s work is consistently characterized by serious investigation, innovative methodology, and formal and conceptual rigor. Paglen’s visual work captures various combinations of beauty and terror constituting a 21st century vision of the political and technological sublime.
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Schedule
from March 16, 2009 to April 04, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-03-06 from 18:00 to 20:00