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Phyllis Baldino 菲利斯．巴爾迪諾
about symmetry symmetry about 有關對稱對稱有關
2002
Combining footage of people in a wide range of mundane situations—eating corn on the cob, woodworking, hanging pictures on a wall, getting a haircut—video artist Phyllis Baldino creates a commentary on the desire for symmetry and balance in how we understand and shape our surroundings. Among these largely anonymous fragments, recurring glimpses of physicist Lee Smolin explaining the theoretical concept of supersymmetry set up an ironic tension between the abstraction of high-level physics and the tangibility of everyday life. Baldino’s unconventional editing—a split screen format that doubles each image on a delay, progressing through side-wipe transitions—underscores the theme of structure imposed on an unstructured world.
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