Suck It In

"Suck It In #1 refers both to an intervention in the landscape -a site-specific digital animation that was projected outside the museum on a moonlit winter night prior to the exhibition's opening- as well as to a video recording of that intervention, a 22-minute video that is replayed on a monitor within the exhibition space. The animation itself is again a simple line-drawing, a single white line in left-to-right movement, projected via a high-powered laser onto Los Barruecos, a wall of rock behind the museum that endows the museum with one of its most prominent physical features [...] Separated from the rest of the museum complex by a small, placid body of water plentiful with life -croaking frogs, busy fish, migrating birds– Los Barruecos are particularly striking in the crepuscular light of dawn and dusk, when the line of their blackened silhouette edges across an indigo sky. It is with this dark line of rock, eroded and eroding, that Mohino's dancing line of white light forms a two-part counterpoint in Suck It In #1, a counterpoint that, in contrasting the strikingly different rates of change between light and rock, serves ultimately to highlight the unyielding linear constancy of change itself."

George Stolz