The Studio Museum in Harlem
2006

Blurring the boundaries of perception, Nadine Robinson’s installation alles grau presents an original soundtrack for modern civilization and an apocalyptic landscape of time. Translated from German, the title, alles grau in grau malen, means “to paint everything grey or pessimistically.” The larger-than-life grey panels, speakers, smoke, light and throbbing acoustics are suggestive of Biblical depictions of the end of time. Robinson refers to these doomsday narratives as part of “the specter of Revelation,” which “looms in the popular imagination today.”
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The Studio Museum in Harlem