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Diana Thater
The Best Space is Deep Space1998

Not on view
Color photograph of a gallery installation: nine black-framed monitors mounted on a curving wood-paneled wall, each displaying a white animal against a dark red ground, with cables trailing to the floor
Video installation with a row of flat-screen monitors mounted along a curved wood-paneled wall, each displaying a glowing white figure against a dark background; cables hang beneath each screen; blue carpeted floor and receding corridor with staircase visible at right.
Artist or Maker
Diana Thater
United States, California, active Los Angeles, born 1962
Title
The Best Space is Deep Space
Date Made
1998
Medium
Ten unique works on ten DVDs
Dimensions
Dimensions variable with installation
Credit Line
Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, New York/London
Accession Number
L.2007.41.1.1-.10
Classification
Time Based Media
Collecting Area
Contemporary Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Cooke, Lynne and Lisa Gabrielle Mark, eds. with Christine Y. Kim. Diana Thater: The Sympathetic Imagination. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2015.