Pilgrim Viewer (in collaboration with Sam Chermaye and Arno Brandlhuber), 2015 (left)
Powder coated pipe, HD television monitor, speakers
The viewing device is loosely based on furniture in Le Corbusier's Chapel Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp, France (1950-1955). The metal rail facing the monitor is intended to be used to sit on or lean against.
I Am In Paris, 2015 (right)
Murano glass neon tubes, un-electrified
The sentence is the sole spoken text of the actress/model Veruschka, who appears in brief but iconic scenes in the film. The line recurs mantra-like throughout Roth’s film.
41°03’59.3”N 8°57’28.1”E, 2016 (through doorway)
41°03’59.1”N 8°57’27.9”E, 2016 (ceiling)
Both works: Latex paint (ChromakeyGreen 1030)
The shapes of the wall paintings are based on a window in the architect Dante Bini's La Cupola, a dome-like structure built for the Italian modernist filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni and his lover, the actress Monica Vitti.
Photo © Andrea Rossetti