Barry Anderson

Barry Anderson

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Between expectation and the everyday

Breaking news, city lights, sound bites, stock quote crawls- the media offers us a world doled out in 20-minute intervals that dazzles, screams, and demands. It is a place- to borrow the spirit of Calgon – that we work to escape from. And art, from medieval frescoes to landscape photography, has been more than willing to provide alternative destinations in the remote sanctuaries of religion, nature- and even the sensational.

But there’s an alternative to this full-scale flight from reality and its isolated fantasy worlds. We can find refuge from the world in the world. In a bustling train terminal. Outside of a major tourist attraction. On an airplane. In a busy plaza.

And that’s the place- or perhaps, more appropriately the space- I try to reveal in my videos, installations, and photographs, a place between the two extremes- between heaven and earth, expectation and the everyday, and the macrocosm and the microcosm, desire and fulfillment.

Call it an enduring moment that’s at once in and beyond time. Maybe it’s an invitation to linger, to wait, to reflect. Unlike the colorful cacophony that constantly bombards us, it is a space, that is slowly and discretely revealed, that moment that usually sneaks by us unseen, but that once we see it allows us to see ourselves a bit more clearly.

Barry Anderson