François Bucher
White Balance
10 January - 2 March 2002
New York Times
February 1, 2002
ART REVIEW
Amid the Ashes, Creativity
By HOLLAND COTTER
Questions and doubts also arise in a one-man show
of work by the young Colombian-born artist François Bucher at Location
One, a nonprofit SoHo gallery specializing in new media. Working quickly last
fall, Mr. Bucher created a half-hour video montage mixing shots of Lower Manhattan
before and after the attack, clips from Hollywood terrorist films and passages
of digital scrambling to suggest the psychic fracturing caused by the attack
itself and by the stepped-up surveillance that followed. The results, seen on
computer terminals in the gallery, add up to a promising New York solo debut."
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