{"id":107093,"date":"2017-01-26T12:17:48","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T17:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=107093"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:58:52","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:58:52","slug":"hothouse-holograms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/26\/hothouse-holograms\/","title":{"rendered":"Hothouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Louise Bourgeois\u2019s holograms at Cheim and Read.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_107098\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/hologram-5-ms_lg_web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107098\" class=\"wp-image-107098 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/hologram-5-ms_lg_web.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/hologram-5-ms_lg_web.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/hologram-5-ms_lg_web-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/hologram-5-ms_lg_web-768x586.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-107098\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Louise Bourgeois, <i>Untitled<\/i> (detail), 1998\u20132014, suite of eight holograms, each about 11\u201d x 14\u201d.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Holography is a curious technology: at once of the past and of the future, charmingly quaint but also coldly precise, marked by old sci-fi dreaming about the aesthetics of tomorrow. Equal parts kitschy and surreal, it\u2019s sometimes eerily beautiful, seeming to deconstruct itself in its present absence.<\/p>\n<p>From the Greek <em>holos<\/em> (\u201cwhole\u201d) and <em>gramma<\/em> (\u201cmessage\u201d), the hologram is like a private communiqu\u00e9, delivered across space and time while respecting the conventions of neither. Unlike a photograph, which records only intensities of light, a hologram produces a three-dimensional view of an object by re-creating, through diffraction, the original light field. (In this way, a hologram is perhaps more like a sound recording than like a photographed image.) Because they require precise lighting conditions and the viewer\u2019s active complicity to achieve their full effect, holograms have a kind of romance to them\u2014the same intimacy borne of circling an object at dusk or twilight and emerging with a memory that isn\u2019t quite yours.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_107101\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/hologram-8-ms_lg_web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107101\" class=\"wp-image-107101 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/hologram-8-ms_lg_web.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"986\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/hologram-8-ms_lg_web.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/hologram-8-ms_lg_web-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/hologram-8-ms_lg_web-768x757.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-107101\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i>Untitled<\/i> (detail), 1998\u20132014, suite of eight holograms, each about 11\u201d x 14\u201d.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_107100\" style=\"width: 829px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/hologram-7-ms_lg_web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107100\" class=\"wp-image-107100 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/hologram-7-ms_lg_web.jpg\" width=\"819\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/hologram-7-ms_lg_web.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/hologram-7-ms_lg_web-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/hologram-7-ms_lg_web-768x938.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-107100\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i>Untitled<\/i> (detail), 1998\u20132014, suite of eight holograms, each about 11\u201d x 14\u201d.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A show of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheimread.com\/exhibitions\/louise-bourgeois-holograms\" target=\"_blank\">holograms by Louise Bourgeois, on view through February 11 at Cheim and Read<\/a>, mounts a persuasive case for holography as an artistic medium, or at least as <em>her<\/em> artistic medium. Made in the late 1990s, when Bourgeois was among a group of artists approached by C-Project, a now defunct New York holographic studio, the suite of eight holograms functions like a miniseries staged across eight small screens, a drama unfolding in eight vitrines. The gallery\u2019s press release invokes \u201ca Beckettian sense of slapstick horror,\u201d and there\u2019s something in the stark red of the images\u2014the result of the base color of the plate used during the hologram-making process, deliberately preserved by the artist\u2014that suggests an affinity for the monochromatic, vaguely postapocalyptic absurdity of the playwright\u2019s late oeuvre. But the more time one spends with Bourgeois\u2019s holograms, the more they reveal themselves as saturated and dense and hothouse. One presents a bell jar domed over miniature chairs, a hellish snow globe that insinuates the poetry of Sylvia Plath. The whole thing is a bit of a \u201cmad girl\u2019s love song\u201d: a doomed family romance, the masochistic pleasures of unrequited love, an airless turn inward.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, it may be more precise to see the holograms as a distillation of the principles everywhere evident in Bourgeois\u2019s work. Over her remarkable and remarkably long career\u2014she died in 2010, at ninety-eight\u2014she remained faithful to her key concern with the vulnerability of the body, its insatiable need for love and protection. The holograms are finely wrought, intensely detailed apparitions, apparently frail but encased in glass. They need you to love them and see them, to nurture them into being, to absorb their charged surfaces. In return, they yield sensations nearly tactile in their dimensionality. The experience is immersive, and though there are recurring motifs\u2014the dollhouse furniture, the disembodied bodies\u2014no plot intervenes in the obscure gratification of the story.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_107096\" style=\"width: 804px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/hologram-3-ms_lg_web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107096\" class=\"wp-image-107096 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/hologram-3-ms_lg_web.jpg\" width=\"794\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/hologram-3-ms_lg_web.jpg 794w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/hologram-3-ms_lg_web-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/hologram-3-ms_lg_web-768x967.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-107096\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i>Untitled<\/i> (detail), 1998\u20132014, suite of eight holograms, each about 11\u201d x 14\u201d.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When the New Museum displayed holograms made by six big-name artists in 2012, the show was called \u201cPictures from the Moon.\u201d (Two of Bourgeois\u2019s holograms were included in that exhibition, the only holograms made by a woman artist.) That title spoke to the alien attributes of holography; the laser beams integral to making of holograms; the ways in which holographic images can sometimes seem like telegrams from outer space, a <em>Star Wars<\/em>\/<em>Star Trek<\/em> incidental. But it\u2019s hard to imagine that Bourgeois\u2019s holograms come to us from the moon: they are, for one thing, too warm-blooded, too lusty. They emerge from the artist\u2019s molten core.<\/p>\n<p>In their blurry materiality, the holograms are at once a token of faith and a refutation of belief. Bourgeois was, famously, an insomniac, and her holograms, perhaps more than even the drawings she made during sleepless nights, speak to the hypnogogic state, the phase at the portal of sleep filled with hallucinated visions and whispers. Too witty to be straightforwardly nightmarish, the holograms cast their red eyes on the gallery and lend the impression of a brothel filled with <em>wundercamera<\/em>. You don\u2019t know, quite, what will happen to you here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m afraid of power. It makes me nervous,\u201d Bourgeois once said, words quoted as the conclusion of her obituary in the <em>New York Times<\/em>. \u201cIn real life, I identify with the victim. That\u2019s why I went into art.\u201d Bourgeois\u2019s holograms are mysterious crime scenes from the victim\u2019s perspective. They pulsate with secret wisdom and insight, and with the fear of suffering for it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_107095\" style=\"width: 867px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/hologram-2-ms_lg_web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107095\" class=\"wp-image-107095 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/hologram-2-ms_lg_web.jpg\" width=\"857\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/hologram-2-ms_lg_web.jpg 857w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/hologram-2-ms_lg_web-257x300.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/hologram-2-ms_lg_web-768x896.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-107095\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i>Untitled<\/i> (detail), 1998\u20132014, suite of eight holograms, each about 11\u201d x 14\u201d.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_107094\" style=\"width: 636px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/hologram-1-ms_lg_web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107094\" class=\"wp-image-107094 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/hologram-1-ms_lg_web.jpg\" width=\"626\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/hologram-1-ms_lg_web.jpg 626w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/hologram-1-ms_lg_web-188x300.jpg 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-107094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i>Untitled<\/i> (detail), 1998\u20132014, suite of eight holograms, each about 11\u201d x 14\u201d.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Yevgeniya Traps lives in Brooklyn. She works at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, NYU.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>All photos by Matthew Schreiber. \u00a9 The Easton Foundation\/Licensed by VAGA, NY.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bourgeois was an insomniac, and her holograms speak to the hypnogogic state, the phase at the portal of sleep filled with hallucinated visions and 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