Mungo Thomson
Volume 2. Animal Locomotion

Volume 2. Animal Locomotion
Volume 2. Animal Locomotion
Volume 2. Animal Locomotion
ArtistAmerican, born 1969
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Volume 2. Animal Locomotion
Date2015–2022
MediumSingle-channel video with sound
Dimensions5 minutes, 21 seconds
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment and the Henry Nias Foundation
Object number2023.237
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 208
On view

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Department
Photography
Description

Published from the 1960s to the early 2000s, the Time Life series of books presented a myriad of popular interest subject matter—ranging from art to natural sciences to history—to subscribers via monthly installments. In his own Time Life series, Mungo Thomson mined the publication’s vast archives, scanning and assembling thousands of images into stop-motion animations accompanied by rhythmic, minimal soundtracks. Drawing on images from instructional fitness guides, Volume 2. Animal Location references Eadweard Muybridge’s 19th-century photographic studies of motion. Thomson’s hypnotic sequencing and pacing emphasize our inundation by images as they are continually reproduced, transmitted, and consumed anew.


ProvenanceThe artist; [Karma Gallery, Los Angeles]; purchased by MFAH, 2024.
Exhibition HistoryKarma, New York, March 5 - April 16, 2022.
Karma, Los Angeles, January 14 - March 4, 2023.
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