Artworks

Deborah Oropallo and Andy Rappaport, ONE WORLD, 2021. 7 screen video (one row) with 2 channel sound, custom 3 1/2 x 6 inch monitors. Running Time: 6:00 mins.

In 2021, the gallery’s Media Room featured ONE WORLD (2021), an ambitious, 35-channel video on postcard sized monitors that depicts the construction and raising of One World Trade Center in the early 1970s to its destruction on 9/11. In memorializing the Twin Towers, Oropallo and Rappaport also reflect on collective trauma, and how we relate to loss, violence, and renewal in our built environments. Oropallo and Rappaport write that “growing up in proximity to the Hudson River, we watched and then visited the construction of One World Trade Center during high school, witnessing it emerge as a hated monument to capitalism, transformed through its violent erasure into a lost monument to collective resilience and fortitude.”

In 2021 and 2022, ONE WORLD was acquired for the Kramlich Collection and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, respectively.