On 9th April Louisiana lets a technological monster into its exhibition halls. Jon Kessler's installation work "The Palace at 4 A.M." is a noisy termite's nest of surveillance cameras, more than a hundred monitors, kilometres of cable, giant posters and mechanical sculptures. In short, a monumental political work that gives free rein to the global paranoia after the terrorist attack of 11th September 2001 and the invasion of Iraq.
The "Palace at 4 A.M." is absolutely Kessler's most ambitious production to date. It was created in 2005 for the PS1 Contemporary Art Center in New York and helped to re-situate him as one of the USA's most important contemporary artists after a break of almost ten years from the mid-1990s on. Read more...