Shadow for a While
2007 · 16mm film (black and white, silent)
2 min.
Museum of Modern Art
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Mircea Cantor
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Mircea Cantor constructs immersive environments using video, sculpture, and installation that fuse found materials, performative gestures, and archival fragments into layered narratives. His work engages displacement, collective memory, and the absurdity of institutional and social systems through forms that resist linear interpretation. Cantor's practice operates across scales from intimate sculptural interventions to large-scale installations, often incorporating bodily presence and temporal duration as generative elements.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 25d ago
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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