Avoided until it's last day because I feared my child might step on the installation and it turns out that is the point of it. Crazed glass, cracked and trampled on, placed over surveillance-style photos of Cali, Colombia. A city beset by violence and drugs and home to the artist, Oscar Munoz. Also a film that I liked even more, of black and white portrait photographs, being dipped into a swirling liquid that dissolves them, eventually going dark with the colour. The plug hole being at the centre of it all... beautiful, poignant and simple.
Yet more substance from 1708... Next stop the Visual Arts Centre of Richmond for Part 2 of the show.
1708 Oscar Munoz
