Eye Of The Model, The

Freed from its original installation context, every frame washes over you, provoking a response. The topic is the continual revision of Russian history, evoked through a blank book carved in stone and the eye that stares back - statues, Stalin, the model lying passively, waiting for what? This complex piece is held together through precision and control over the medium that is itself a homage to the masters of Russian formalism it recalls in sound and image.