In this project Pippin transformed a laundromat in New Jersey into a photo studio, converting a row of 12 front-loading washing machines into a suite of cameras. Activated via trip wires, Pippin photographed a variety of subjects (mostly himself) moving through the laundromat. The works evoke Eadweard James Muybridge's 19th century explorations of motion through photography, as well as continue Pippin's use of the constructed pinhole camera which he has employed since the mid 80's.

 The photographs in this exhibition record Pippin running in a suit, and walking backwards through the laundromat.

Pippin has written of his own work, "The future of photography seems to rely on the progress of the camera and its ability to be continually refined, to a point whereby images will be indistinguishable from reality. Working in the opposite direction to this mentality I have become fascinated with the idea of constructing a camera whose view point is not some external subject, but instead one having the capability of looking back in on itself toward its own darkness. An instrument designed with the intention of recording its own mechanism and features. A singular entity bearing no relationship to anything other than its own intricate and elaborate operation." (Steven Pippin - The Rigmarole of Photography. ICA)

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