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Rob Carter: Stone on Stone

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Photographs are the lifeblood of Rob Carter's work, but video is the beating heart — it's the artist's principal medium and the animating force (quite literally) behind his evolving reflections on the "theatricality of architecture." Following recent pieces about sports stadiums, his latest video, Stone on Stone, uses Carter's signature stop-motion techniques to dramatize the politicized history of a different type of building: immense cathedrals. Tangible layers of meticulously cut-out photographs (depicting edifices, ornamentation, and the surrounding landscapes) pile up before your eyes or fall away into ruin. Visually, it's a captivating trick, but the method itself also neatly mirrors the architectural processes of construction, reuse, and demolition on which Carter sets his sights.

- Karsten Lund
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