The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum presents the Recent Work of Grazia Toderi on view April 21, 2011 to September 5, 2011.

Grazia Toderi, “Orbite Rosse (Red Orbit),” 2009. Installation view, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK. Courtesy of the artist

Grazia Toderi (Italian, b. Padua, 1963) likens her video projections to “frescoes of light.” Best known for large-scale installations, the artist works from documentary imagery collected from urban night surveillance and military, satellite, and space program footage. Over these she superimposes her own photography and cinematography, altering the effect with digital manipulations and unifying the vista with sepia-tone filters. The result feels both familiar and mysterious, as the eye struggles to determine the horizon line and read the origins of fields of glimmering lights. Shown on an endless loop, these mesmerizing nightscapes represent the artist’s ambition to “visualize the infinite.”

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