Invisible Object

Two air conditioners embedded in tight parallel walls face one other, creating an invisible and ambiguously present “object” of cold air.

Art critics Jeriah Hildwine and Stephanie Burke write, “On a hot night, and it was hotter inside [Swimming Pool Project Space], the small area of cool space functioned as a little relief, but mostly a mockery of our discomfort. The title is interesting: is it the air conditioners, which are invisible, because we don't usually notice them? Or is it the cool air between them, literally invisible?” (Monday Morning Quarterback, a Bad at Sports blog, 7/17/10)

2010
4 x 5 x 8 ft. Space between air conditioners: 3 inches
Parallel walls (drywall, 2x4s), 2 air conditioners, a void

Photo by Erik Peterson.