The exhibition will present two significant installations by each artist demonstrating
their visually complex understanding of space and material through the use of light and form, from Flavin's straightforward yet dramatic use of fluorescent lamps to Judd's highly polished aluminum constructions.
We quickly discovered, however, that Battlefield is too
visually complex for the agent to
understand, which meant we had to simplify what it sees.
Seeing an artist grapple publicly with the
complex and personal experience of trying to
understand what it means to become subject to a disease such as Alzheimer's — and to articulate that
visually, sonically, and spatially — gave occasion to an extensive line - up of public programming revolving around artistic, medical, legal and ethical questions and made apparent how widespread this experience is.