"Stealing attention", Ellen K. Levy

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" To make sure we get the point, in the gallery’s black project room Levy has placed a single white shelf, which holds a printout of the missing antiquities of Iraq’s National Museum. The point is also reinforced by the inclusion of a flash animation, the result of Levy’s collaboration with neuroscientist Michael E. Goldberg, who researches visual attention. In it, the flashing hand movements of monte players make it highly difficult to see the antiquities in the background, which disappear from our sight. Disorienting us with so much to see, Levy ensures inevitable blindness—tragically, a similar lack of insight took us to war. "

Jonathan Goodman, Ellen K. Levy: Stealing Attention at Michael Steinberg Fine Art, artcritical.com