Single channel, HD video, Colour, No Sound
Created at the Museum of Oriental Art, Turin, this piece plays with the language of video documentary: a series of spot lights reveal isolated sections of the museum’s darkened interior in the manner of a subterranean expedition. Monroy’s interest in the intersection of the documented ‘real’ with fiction manifests itself in his post production recombination of the originally recorded work, which literally functions by folding time in on itself. The end result is a looped video of the excavation of the interior whose duration is indeterminate. Aiming to produce a semi-fictitious event that generates a documentary experience, the artist’s project utilizes the architecture and historical objects within as a means of revealing the mythologizing that is an inherent consequence of the canonization process of art and history.