Bruce Silverstein Gallery is pleased to present Us, a site-specific installation by the artist Silvio Wolf.
For the past twenty years, Wolf has explored the limits of photographic representation through an interest in the abstract, the fleeting, the visible and invisible, challenging the indexical nature of the photograph and questioning our notion of self. This installation, designed as a cohesive experience for the viewer, is comprised of the artist’s newest works—his first images to depict the human figure.
Signaling the entrance to a show for and about ‘us’, a photographic mural of two figures passing through a curtain covers the rounded wall defining the entrance to the gallery. This piece guides the viewer toward a room of mirrored portraits reduced to positive and negative shapes, the viewer’s image reflecting onto a grid of unidentifiable faces. A final reflective portrait shows a shadowy, abstract self-portrait of the artist created by photographing himself reflected in another artwork.