Death Drive (excerpt), 2013, two-channel video with sound
“In Death Drive, the artist juxtaposes two videos. The first is shown from the perspective of the driver driving through the Grand Canyon, while the other video presents us with a car stuck in reverse. Accompanied by a recording of a warped LP, each element is seemingly without beginning or end. Death Drive refers to the term of the same name that Sigmund Freud uses to describe a force that makes us behave in ways that are counter-intuitive. In their own way, each of these works signal the knowledge that our paths may not follow a straight trajectory, and touch upon an ever fluctuating present and future in which the range of control varies considerably.”
— Julie Dickover, former director of the Crisp-Ellert Art Museum and current registrar at the Hammer Museum