Ádám Magyar
Stainless

Stainless

© Adam Magyar

Stainless
Stainless
ArtistHungarian, born 1972
CultureHungarian
Titles
  • Stainless
Date2011
Place depictedBerlin, Germany
MediumSingle-channel video, sound
Dimensions24 minutes, 48 seconds
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Joan Morgenstern
Object number2012.448
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Description

As if the time has stopped for everyone but ourselves, we
travel down the subway platform in Berlin’s Alexanderplatz station, past nearly
immobile commuters frozen in mid-conversation, sipping a coffee, staring at
cell phone screens, or lost in thought. In Ádám Magyar’s hypnotic video Stainless
only a little girl running down the platform seems a part of our
world.   




Using a customized high speed camera set-up of his own
devising, Magyar recorded the length of the subway platform from window of a
train at 1000 frames per second, stretching the twelve-second passage into more
than eight minutes and slowing the movements of waiting passengers to near
stillness. Magyar’s interest in focusing on “unimportant, ignored moments”
rather than exceptional situations, allows the viewer a voyeuristic look at the
everyday presentation, pose, and expression we effect, and transforms a
commonplace crowd into a gallery of living sculptures.





ProvenanceThe artist, 2011; purchased by MFAH, 2012.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
sticker: Adam Magyar / Stainless/ (2011, 24:48) / 25 FPS + 50 FPS

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