“Slow Room” is an art piece by Jonathan Schipper in which a fully furnished room is slowly pulled through a hole in the wall. What the time lapse video doesn’t convey is that this process happened over the period of a month. In real time the destruction is occurring so slowly, you don’t even realize it it is happening before your very eyes.
While in Miami a couple of weeks ago during Art Basel Miami Beach, I attended the collective project space Seven and got to see a piece by this artist. By the time I viewed the piece, the room was nearly demolished.
A few years ago I saw another work by Schipper at the NEXT art fair in Chicago. It was entitled “Slow Inevitable Death of American Muscle” and featured a Pontiac Firebird and Trans Am crashing into each other in slow motion over the period of six days. Again, the demolition was happening at such a slow rate, one didn’t realize it was happening. I find this artist’s work very intriguing.
