Studies for Sackler Gallery Installation 2002

Curator: Here we have Mel Bochner's "Studies for Sackler Gallery Installation," undated, residing at the Harvard Art Museums. Editor: It feels like a blueprint for a dream, a very logical, slightly unsettling dream. Curator: Bochner, known for his conceptual art, explores perspective here, quite literally. Each panel examines a different system: one-point, two-point, diffused. Editor: The 'reversing insert' one feels particularly loaded, like a visual pun on reversing fortunes. It also feels like a symbol. Curator: Symbols of destabilized vision, perhaps. Perspective, after all, is never neutral. Editor: Exactly! It's about power, about seeing and being seen. And this drawing acknowledges that inherent bias. Curator: Food for thought, indeed. Editor: Yeah, makes me wonder how perspective shapes our view of the Sackler legacy itself.