Word: zeitlin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...five installations, "Hall of Whispers," is a pitch-black narrow room lined with video monitors showing black and white images of people struggling to speak through bound mouths. Muffled groans surround the viewer in the darkness. The "message" here, at least the one stated by curator Marilyn A. Zeitlin as "the frustration and vanity of communication," seems simplistically overt. But the images of the faces themselves are so interesting, so cragged with subtle shades of dark and light, depth and surface, that their collective, somewhat pat "meaning" does a disservice to their visual complexity. There is also a certain ludicrousness...