The photo se­ries Dis­play Mod­ern II (Hep­worth) doc­u­ments the con­struc­tion of a card­board replica of Bar­bara Hep­worth’s Sin­gle Form, a mas­sive bronze com­mis­sioned in 1961 for the fore­court of the United Na­tions Build­ing in Man­hat­tan. Dis­play Mod­ern II sub­tracts the ur­ban con­text and ma­te­r­ial weight of Hep­worth’s orig­i­nal in an ex­per­i­ment that tests the po­ten­tial for pure form to act as a con­tainer for ab­stract ideas. This work also ref­er­ences the photo-con­cep­tual process pieces of the 1960s and 70s.

Doc­u­men­ta­tion: In­stal­la­tion at La­bor, Mex­ico City; in­stal­la­tion at Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York; de­tails

Ter­ence Gower, 2007