Still Life in Motion
| Still Life in Motion Corin Hewitt on view October 3, 2008 — January 4, 2009 at the Whitney Museum. |
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His new work also elegantly refers to Roland Barthes’s theories on photography, time, space, image, and object, as investigated in his seminal text Camera Lucida (1980). |
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| Hewitt’s performance is a bit more Mr. Science, however, as he putters around, transmuting materials through culinary experimentation, sculpting, and recycling with a serene, sincere smile. |
 All images are courtest of the Whitney Museum.
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The exhibition will be on display till January 4, and each of the photographs will be framed and hung on the gallery walls surrounding Hewitt’s cell. |
| Hewitt’s performance/installation evokes Bruce Nauman’s longtime exploration of the psychological space of the studio, as well as the 1960s-era Back to the Land movement—particularly in Vermont, where Hewitt was raised and where he harvested the root vegetables in this show. | |||
