This winter, the Milwaukee Art Museum will mount the U.S. museum premiere of David Claerbout's multimedia installation The Close (2022). The work which brings together a reconstruction of amateur film, circa 1920, and a digital 3D rendering of that footage. Intended as a short, emotional history of the camera, The Close reflects on what Claerbout refers to as 'dark optics,' a profound if chaotic recalibration of the beliefs we share regarding image, information, and language.
November 18, 2022 - January 8, 2023
