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Lessness (for Samuel Beckett) (2000)

Lessness (for Samuel Beckett)

Slide projection on endwall of narrowing room

The rooms in the undercroft of the London Roundhouse (Chalk Farm) are wedge-shaped but with the end of the wedge cut off.  I projected onto this narrower end, an illusory continuation of it to an imaginary point.

Lessness (for Samuel Beckett)

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Lessness (for Samuel Beckett)

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