Michael Bell-Smith: Bouncing Lights Forever at Foxy Production

Windows screen-savers circa 1993, but with meaning. Potentially. The spare video loops are either projected or screened, just moving pixels, abstract and silent. If anything, the images are a sort of rendered starlight, though fated for far less viewers on the personal-sized t.v. screens. These works are memories, not substance. It is light and only light that creates this work, and the nature of the subject is as fleeting as the medium. It is that which doesn’t exist on which the work dwells: technology of the past, starlight in the city, the image that comes and goes without material presence. It’s only the flicker of the GIFs we have anymore, Bell-Smith suggests; zone out and wonder.

“Bouncing Lights Forever” on display through February 16th at Foxy Production. 617 West 27th St.

Image by Michael Bell-Smith, Glitter Bend, Courtesy Foxy Production