Roxy Paine: Denuded Lens

Although Denuded Lens includes a number of wood models, Checkpoint is the only one that is room-sized. Replicating everything down to the wastebasket for disposing of that bottle of water before shedding shoes, belt, jacket and other items for scanning, the monochrome presentation creates an unsettling, surreal effect aided by the forced perspective that Paine employs (the photo at bottom illustrates this aspect of the creation).

"Rendered via various processes – from computer modeling to meticulous hand carving," per a statement from the gallery, Checkpoint is nevertheless not a replica. Rather, it "alchemically translates a quotidian space into an uncanny one. Metal and rubber are transformed into soft-hued maple wood, a depth of eighty feet is perspectivally forced into eighteen, and the moving, living moment of human experience becomes architecturally frozen in time."

Denuded Lens is on display at Marianne Boesky Gallery until October 18, 2014.