Volume 2. Animal Locomotion
- Volume 2. Animal Locomotion
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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.
Published References Mungo Thomson, "Time Life," text by Hal Foster, Lisa Gitelman (NY: Karma Books, 2023). Artforum, Summer 2022, "Mungo Thomson" by Colby Chamberlain Hyperallergic, April 2, 2022, "Mungo Thomson’s Elegies to an Analogue World" by Cassie Packard The New York Times, March 31, 2022, "What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now: Mungo Thomson" by Martha Schwendener The New Yorker, March 25, 2022, "Goings on About Town: Mungo Thomson" by Andrea K. Scott HypeBeast, March 8, 2022, "Mungo Thomson Presents "Time Life" at Karma Gallery" by Shawn Ghassemitari Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
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