Before the Sun- Sarah Lerum

Karthik Pandian is a contemporary artist who lives in Los Angeles. Recently his work has been shown at Midway Contemporary Art in Minneapolis, but his work has also been shown nation wide. The exhibition he did at Midway was an architecture and film piece. The structure was a large square of packed earth. The sides of the platform has sea shells flush with the packed earth. There were two 16mm film projectors housed in two class columns. These columns were lined up so the front of the projector was towards where the two walls of each corner met. The room was very dark because both of the projectors were playing at the corner of each side of the room. The film was repeated for both projectors. One side was the sunrise and the other was the sunset; they both also had other clips, such as, the beach, people, and fireworks. In addition to this exhibition, there was audio playing, which were the sounds from what was recored and playing on the film.