ALEJANDRO CESARCO

'The streets were dark with something more than night or the closer I get to the end the more I rewrite the beginning', 2011
35mm color slide installation, sound (voice-over by Lawrence Weiner); 17 minutes
Edition of 5 + 2 AP
(CESARCO-2011-0030)

Cesarco's installation is a mise-en-scène comprising wall texts, a slide show, framed photographs, and an artist’s book, which reconfigure the conventions of the detective story to imagine the viewer as a private investigator, ensnared in self-reflexive observation. While holding out the promise of meaning and order, the assembled works use the codes of the genre to disarticulate narrative structures of reading and looking.