Juan Geuer - Al Asnaam: A People Participating Seismometer

by Jean-Francois RENAUD Juan GEUER

Paperback, 2001

Status

Available

Call number

MON.GEJ.01

Collection

Publication

The Ottawa Art Gallery / Juan Geuer / Jean-Francois Renaud

Call number

MON.GEJ.01

Library's review

Catalogue for a solo exhibition of the work of Juan Geuer, which became a permanent installation at the Ottawa Art Gallery.

'The seismometer takes its name from the October 10, 1980 earthquake in El Asnam, Alergia. The device expressed the surface waves of that large earthquake as broad sweeps of
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light from one side of the room to another. The next day, we were informed by the media of the devastation and the death of thousands of people buried alive under their crumbling adobe walls.'

(Abstract from artist statement)
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