Double Negative . 2015
photos: © Miguel de Guzmán . + Simon Preston Gallery
Double Negative is composed of two silent, black & white 16mm films and a color HD video, which together propose ruptures between notions of original and remake, artifact and copy, collection and preservation. The two reverse-facing 16mm films simultaneously project images of Le Corbusier’s iconic white Villa Savoye outside Paris, and its doppelgänger, a black copy located in Canberra, Australia. Each film has been printed on 16mm stock as a negative image, or polarity print, further inverting the white original, and thus reversing light and dark.
Simon Preston Gallery
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