Gary
Hill
Gary
Hill
Hill
Gary Hill's shape-shifting work probes the close, ambiguous, unexpected connection between text, body and experience. From filmed performances early in his career to installations where viewers interact with a world of images and words, the American artist’s unclassifiable work has established him as a leading figure on the contemporary scene.
Hill likes to add a sound and spatial dimension to video, his favourite medium, because it “allows a kind of real-time game, the possibility of thinking aloud”. Language, through the body, takes shape in immersive, confusing installations where the viewer’s place is constantly redefined: is he or she an actor, an observer, a user of a device or even a creator?
Hill's work was presented for the first time by the Pinault Collection in 2008 during the exhibition “Passage du temps” (“Passage of Time”) at the Tri Postal in Lille.
Hill likes to add a sound and spatial dimension to video, his favourite medium, because it “allows a kind of real-time game, the possibility of thinking aloud”. Language, through the body, takes shape in immersive, confusing installations where the viewer’s place is constantly redefined: is he or she an actor, an observer, a user of a device or even a creator?
Hill's work was presented for the first time by the Pinault Collection in 2008 during the exhibition “Passage du temps” (“Passage of Time”) at the Tri Postal in Lille.
