In Détournement, video artist Molly Bradbury creates an immersive audio-visual experience. Using footage shot in Las Vegas Détournement recreates the perceptual experience of the place. Through manipulations of time, Bradbury affords the viewer the opportunity to suspend their objective reading of the work presented, and instead allow the barrage image and sound to wash over them. The work is non-didactic, encouraging each viewer to have their own relationships to the work.

In Bradbury’s oeuvre, her focus has been on the magic found in the mundane, everyday world. Through working with video footage, she has found ways to highlight the phenomenal, focusing on repetitious patterns found the landscapes she shoots.

Détournement is a departure from earlier work in that the repetitions are more subtle, and the saturated color palette is overwhelmingly seductive. The scale of the projection, at 36 feet wide, fully engages the viewer’s vision, while the sound design establishes the installation space as an autonomous environment.

Détournement - Installation Documentation

Documentation from the installation of Détournement at the Raymond Jonson Gallery in the University of New Mexico Museum. The video was included in "REASONS EXCUSES ALIBIS AND NON SEQUITURS", 18th Annual Juried Graduate Exhibition, Juried by David Pagel.

The installation of Détournement is 9 feet tall by 36 feet wide, requiring three projectors. For this show, the image bends around a short wall in a shallow room filling the viewer's vision.