
Heath Franco
With “VALLEY,” an exhibition of a 2019 walk-in installation of the same name, Heath Franco stages a bold physical extension of the video-based work for which he’s best known. Entering Passage, 2018–19, a carpeted A-frame walkway, feels like stepping into a sinister gated garden, a portal to a dark dimension. Indeed, artificial foliage at the tunnel’s entrance partially shields the viewer from a speaker that loops through a distorted greeting: “I’m not doing anything.”
The world one enters is a post-consumerist one. Franco has crafted a phallic pyre, which he calls Pile Circus, 2019, upon which