Sadie Coles

Landscape for Fire - 2007
video with sound
7 min

Perfect Lover - 2007
digital colour animation transmitted on 16mm film
3 min

In the work "Perfect Lover" (2007), a realistically animated crow marks the hours of the day in a human voice. Wolfson's film is a meditation on mortality and the passage of time with an unmistakable reference to Felix Gonzalez-Torres' work Untitled (Perfect Lovers) (1991), two wall clocks that are initially set to the same time and inevitably fall out of sync with each other. The crow is often characterized as a bad omen or a signal of coming change, and this film relates to an untitled work the artist created for the 2006 Whitney Biennial in which he attempted to manufacture an omen by luring crows, with an audio recording of their calls, to the top of the museum.

Exhibition view: Jordan Wolfson. Rowley Kennerk Gallery, Chicago, 2007

Untitled (Frank Painting Company, Inc.) - 2006
scraped and repainted wall, statement by Jordan Wolfson
Format variable