Taking as its starting point images of exhibition views from the MoMA New York spanning more than 50 years Exhibition view is the result of a four month research project that investigated the different elements that construct exhibitions and shape how these were, are and will be viewed through their photographic documentation. Exhibitions have been and still are documented in a very specific and constrained manner. How can they be read differently? De Dios RodrÃguez answers this question by creating two slide-show videos made out of a selection of photographs from the thousands of photographic exhibition views that conform the MoMA NY archive. For this video, the artist has selected MoMA exhibition view photographs where texts can be read, mostly texts on walls (e.g. titles of exhibitions). It is through the editing process of these photographs, their rearrangement, where a new meaning is produced: an exhibition catalogue in the form of visual poetry where the act of curation overlooks the act of writing.
