It doesn't take much to activate my travel bug, so no surprise that after about five seconds of standing in front of Bull.Miletic's video Par Hasard and its shots of the Eiffel Tower (in their current show at Gallery Paule Anglim) I was ready to jump on a plane to Paris. The pair otherwise known as Synne Bull and Dragan Miletic have long had an interest in using their art to explore physical space, often incorporating film and video to illuminate otherwise invisible moments, and at Paule Anglim they take on the City of Light itself. Par Hasard is an evocative tribute to the iconic presence of the Eiffel Tower in the center of Paris, while the clever Révolution Périphérique is a two-channel video installation juxtaposing seemingly endless clockwise and counter-clockwise revolutions around Paris's famous ring road, its soundtrack provided by a record eternally stuck in a single groove. Bull.Miletic take that most banal of experiences, driving on a highway, and turn it into a mesmerizing encounter with the perimeter of the city. I felt like I was fixed in one place and moving, completely bored and filled with anticipation, all at the same time.
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