• Dan Graham
  Helix/Spiral, 1973
  Collection Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte
  Contemporanea, permanent loan Fondazione CRT Progetto Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
  

A prominent conceptual artist since the 1960s, Dan Graham has run a gallery, published articles as artworks, explored performance and film, and bridged art and architecture in his critical practice. In his early films, Graham experimented with perception in an expanded field – what vision does in a situation where the body’s natural faculties are heightened or expanded by the camera lens. In artworks made between 1969 and 1974, the body and the camera become one machine, moving and sensing and seeing – one sees oneself seeing. In Helix / Spiral (1973), there are two performers with cameras filming, one from the ‘outside’ moving in a spiral inwards towards the other performer, and one from the ‘inside’ filming the world while turning the camera around his body in a spiral from head to feet. In Graham’s works, our body is our instrument and compass in a journey through the world.

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