A Just Noticeable Difference

  • Image, Kenny Berger, A Just Noticeable Difference
    Image, Kenny Berger, A Just Noticeable Difference
Kenny Berger, A Just Noticeable Difference, installation view

Room Gallery continues its Emerging Artist Series with A Just Noticeable Difference, a video installation by Kenny Berger.  The work’s title comes from the 19th century psychologist Gustav Fechner, whose experiments addressed the minimum change in sensory input that a person could detect.  Berger’s video installations have long been concerned with the limits of sensorial perception in art, influenced by the work and writings of Robert Morris.  Departing from classic Minimalism, however, Berger’s installations incorporate film and narrative in order to address a given historical event.  In this case, it is the uncanny arrest and conviction of the artist’s childhood neighbor, Lenny Berg, a securities broker who was caught running guns to Poland in 1984.  Perceived by the artist as a “double” or “mirror” of what we think to be normal, the case of Lenny Berg is an overture to consider the broader subject of what constitutes the “real” in both art and life. 

Artist: 
A solo project by Kenny Berger
Curator: 
Juli Carson
Venue: 
Room Gallery
Exhibition Dates: 
Jan 08, 2008 to Feb 07, 2008
Reception: 
Tuesday, January 8, 2008 - 6:00pm to 9:00pm
Publication: 

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