Z Point 2001

Angela Bulloch made this light installation called Z Point, where illuminated squares are arranged in a grid, like a minimal computer screen. It's got this amazing gradient from white to red, making the surface look like it's almost breathing, or maybe melting. The materiality here isn't about thick paint or gestural marks. It's light itself that is the medium, and that’s what gives it such a different feeling. The evenness of the squares and the way they shift in tone gets to something about how we perceive changes on a very gradual, incremental level. You know, like when you’re staring at a sunset and think it looks the same, and then suddenly it’s totally different? Bulloch's work has some connections to earlier artists exploring seriality and systems, like Sol LeWitt. But with the light, she brings something so current to it, like the internet, or something. It's cool how she makes the piece feel so present and in process, even though it's all clean lines. It's like a really analog version of super-digital stuff.