Mike Kelley
Animation 19 (Kandors), 2007
Animation, color/sound, continuous loop
20minutes
22×14×3 (56×36×8cm)
Flat screen monitor with speakers
Artist’s ‘Kandor’ series takes its name from the capital city of the fictional planet Krypton, where Superman was born. When looking at images of Kandor, Kelley was fascinated to find the city similarly difficult to reconstruct: since its design was never standardized.
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“Kandor is the home that can never be revisited, the past that can never be recovered. Yet there it is, shrunken to the size of a dollhouse – an ageless memento in real time.” – Mike Kelley
