Todd Pavlisko: on and on, September 7 - October 13, 2007.
Todd Pavlisko’s 2007 solo exhibition speaks volumes about life’s cornucopia of calamity and our undying tendencies to add levity to our existence...
“When world-famous writer and thinker Stephen Hawking returned to terra firma after enjoying a lifelong dream of being suspended in a zero-gravity environment, he said with absolute charm that he “could have gone on and on.” But, with bittersweet irony, Hawking’s remark was painfully undermined by the image of his frail body confined in a wheelchair and his robotic digitized voice expressionlessly pining for endlessness. Even the video images of his limp body floating in that staged and catered environment project an odd sense of futility, reminding the viewer more about the continuance of hopeless immobility and less about the sense of freedom and fancy for which the trip was intended. Arguably, it’s not even a cynical read to see the whole experience as fleeting and sad.
