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...pieces in Thoughts Unsaid, now Forgotten, a show of the artist Cerith Wyn Evans’ work currently up at the MIT’s List Visual Art Center, is a black chandelier hanging from the ceiling that blinks poetry in Morse code while the same poetry is simultaneously displayed on an LCD screen hanging on a nearby wall. Another piece is a looped playback of a recording (found by Evans in the MIT Museum archives) of a man engraving students’ names on their slide rules, and yet another is the original 1960s console from MIT?...
Looking at a work by Cerith Wyn Evans is a bit like strolling through Harvard Square half-asleep. It’s eclectic, disorienting and mildly overwhelming—too surreal to be completely logical but realistic enough to be convincing. Just when you think you know exactly where you are on Mass. Ave.—just when you think you finally understand Evans’ aesthetic universe—everything turns blurry, foreign and confusing...
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