Large Format Works on a Museum Exhibition Wall

5 October 2017 · Paris

Two large-scale works dominate a gallery wall in a European museum — a framed large-format color photograph showing two figures in an industrial interior, hung beside an unframed figurative painting on raw canvas. The scale is the argument: both pieces expand to fill your peripheral vision before you've read the label. Contemporary art shown at this size stops being something you look at and becomes something you stand inside.