ghost...a border act 2000

Ann Hamilton created ‘ghost...a border act,’ as an immersive installation. It's all about atmosphere, using light and translucent materials to create an environment that feels both present and otherworldly. The whole space feels like a wash of color, a hazy green that obscures as much as it reveals. Hamilton loves to play with texture and surface. Here, the sheer fabric walls soften the industrial architecture. You can see how the projector casts light through the scrim, layering images on top of each other. It’s like she's painting with light, building up layers of transparency and opacity. Look at the way the light pools on the floor, reflecting the images above. It reminds me of Caspar David Friedrich, but instead of romantic landscapes, Hamilton gives us something more ephemeral. It's about presence and absence, memory and the way spaces hold onto the traces of what happened within them. Like a border, it has a liminal quality, both here and not here.