"Ohio at Giverny'' by Mary Lucier consists of two videotapes, each lasting 20 minutes, with sparing but intensely evocative added sound. The visitor looks at seven screens simultaneously. Subtly varied in size, they are arranged, not side by side, but in an unfinished arch. The images move up, down and across them....
What may sound like a travelogue, seemed to this visitor to have a poetry without precedent. It is hard to know which to admire most - the shifting movement of the sevenfold image, the implications of memory, renewal and loss, the sudden stab of sound or the blessed freedom from banality.
