Angela Bulloch

Angela Bulloch’s work is concerned with issues of time and memory, making use of visual and technological elements including video games, film stills, musical theory…, in short all the shared codes of a generation, to analyze its systems of perception and its way of interrelating.

Since 2000 her work has focused on the use of Pixel Box - dmx modules, wooden ply boxes containing red, green and blue fluorescent tubes behind translucent glass fronts. The levels of brightness of each tube are controlled by a system Bulloch created in collaboration with Holger Friese, opening up the possibility of infinite combinations of colours which Angela Bulloch orders from figurative references. A film by Ang Lee, a work by André Cadere or a mathematical harmonic series are starting points for a whole series of variations of colors of these modules installed in the exhibition space. The actual structure of the modules brings to mind dance floors, public lighting and window displays: elements from popular culture encapsulating a reflection on the iconography of an era.

Speaking of her exhibition at Helga de Alvear, she explained “the show is titled The Missing 13th. The title refers to a harmonic beyond the twelve tone system. This harmonic tone exists but is not heard within the western musical tradition. On Tony Conrad's- Slapping Pythagoras record, Conrad attacks Pythagoras’ concepts of harmony as they exclude sounds discordant to our western ears’, like the 13th factor.

In the exhibition there are two different installation works, both works are formed with pixel elements. One work is a specific horizontal arrangement across the floor, which has a filmic basis to the program with an overlaid and conflicting animated layer. This piece was constructed as a whole and then split apart so that the elements combine together to form a different visual perspective to that in which they were made. A composite vertical image - spaced out horizontally.”