The collection of Sideways TVs explores the aftermath and by-products of easy, expedient mass production through prevailing user-friendly photographic technologies. These TVs were once a symbol of the height of home entertainment technology. Here they sit awkward and heavy in the living rooms and basements of those trying to get rid of them. I find the images of them at once endearing and sad – they are rejected characters and yet they physically persist (insist) on being dealt with. They are the manifest dinosaurs of technology, physical bodies as symbols of their own obsolescence. I downloaded the images of TVs for sale pictured sideways in postings on Craigslist, made c-prints of them to the scale I found them, and then hand cut out each image. They are nailed to a wall or laid into a vitrine for installation.
Sideways TVs, 2010-ongoing
575 Sideways TVs (Image Collection, Craigslist), 2010-ongoing
C-prints on metallic paper
Variable dimension
Installation view at PACE Gallery, NY 2011
575 Sideways TVs (Image Collection, Craigslist), 2010-ongoing
C-prints on metallic paper
Variable dimension
Detail from installation at PACE Gallery, NY 2011