- 366247•2012
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Click, click, click, click.
Minute by minute, day by day, month
by month, Kevin Mooney
documents his life. His ever-present
camera catches the
meanderings of two ginger cats, the mundane
rituals of daily existence—sleeping,
brushing teeth, drinking
coffee, driving to work,
eating lunch, checking the mailbox,
watching television—and
welcome diversions such as art
openings, a Cincinnati Reds
game, cycling in the countryside,
and beers at the bar. It
records, too, the more personal and
profound passages of life: a
graduation in May, a friend’s wedding
in July, his father’s
illness, death, and funeral in the autumn.
More than 250,000 photographs
from the year 2012 fly by—
twelve months playing
simultaneously on twelve screens from
January at top left to
December at bottom right until each
fades into darkness. In the
age of the selfie, when millions
share on social media their
happy-hour cocktails, memorable
dinners, or vacation travel,
Mooney pushes that idea to the
extreme with unsparing
honesty, revealing the truer nature of
our lives rushing by minute
by minute, day by day, month by
month. Click, click, click,
click.
ProvenanceThe artist, Bloomington, Indiana; [Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago]; purchased by MFAH, 2018.
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