Ethan Levitas

Ten-year Study

Ethan Levitas

born in 1971 in New York (United States)

In 2011, the United States commemorated the 10th anniversary of 9/11. Ten-Year Study is an exercise in reckoning, a settling of the account of time, memory and meaning of the historical event through the lens of its legacy, as measured through the photographic event here and now. In other words, a study in two events: the historical and the photographic.Read more

Ten-Year Study turns on the propositions at the heart of the photographic practice and medium: the act of looking and the folding of time. Created on the sidewalks that abut and frame the Ground Zero site during the days surrounding the tenth anniversary of the attacks at the World Trade Center, Ten-Year Study is an engagement, through the photograph, with the multitude of individuals who exist in this space today, and through it, and through them, a realization of those who were there then but who are not there now. In sum, Ten-Year Study is a mimetic act that manifests the past in the present, and contextualizes the present in the past, through the event of the photograph.

Ten-Year Study is comprised of 30 pieces. It was presented at Polka Galerie in 2011.