Victor Burgin: Photopath

In anticipation of the artist’s autumn retrospective at the Jeu de Paume, Cristin Tierney is showing Photopath (1967–69) a seminal early work by multimedia artist and theorist Victor Burgin. Operating at the intersection of vision and language, of art and everyday life, Photopath anticipates Burgin’s lifelong preoccupations with semiotics, psychoanalysis, and narrative. As computer-generated art and photo-saturated social media arouse present day public concerns, Burgin offers a sovereign overview of our relationship to images.