Book of Hours
Video Installation
Prints
24 x 36 in
Description
Primary 22’ Animated Video Projection
The central work of the exhibition, Book of Hours, is a monumental animated projection that reinterprets the medieval devotional manuscript Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry through the lens of contemporary art fairs, techno-feudalism, and surveillance culture. Each month of the calendar cycle is remixed into a speculative cosmology where saints become collectors, laborers become artists, and sacred rituals collapse into the transactional choreography of visibility, branding, and cultural capital.
The work layers religious iconography, Dallas-specific mythology, institutional critique, and AI-generated imagery into a moving illuminated manuscript. References to fairs, contracts, gallery systems, extraction economies, and digital authorship sit beside symbols of worship, astrology, labor, and collapse. Positioned as the altar of the exhibition, the piece asks whether the contemporary art world functions less like a marketplace and more like a belief system—one where faith is measured through access, proximity, and participation.
Description
Print Series (1 Print for Each Month)
This print series presents twelve still compositions extracted from the larger Book of Hours projection—one for each month of the calendar cycle. Like illuminated manuscript pages or devotional relics, each image functions as both standalone object and fragment of a larger cosmology. These works preserve specific symbolic moments from the animated piece, allowing viewers to encounter the visual language in a slower, more intimate register.
Each print carries its own constellation of references: labor, class, technology, spectacle, religion, and regional mythology. The format mirrors both medieval calendar books and collectible art objects, raising questions around permanence, ownership, and the transformation of moving image into commodity. What was once devotional becomes collectible; what was once sacred becomes editioned.
