Tony Tasset
I AM U R ME video, 1998
“Most interesting, indeed peculiarly fascinating, was l Am U R Me, whose careful little ballet of changed places and exchanged gazes dances lightly through the psychological intricacies of family life--the undercurrents of attraction and authority that in worst-case scenarios can lead to catastrophic domestic tensions, yet that here seem basically sunny. For even as one registers how the meaning of a glance changes when the husband and wife who swap it morph seconds later into father and son, or mother and son, the stronger note is a mood of harmonious co-identity. And even to say that much may be to risk laying too heavy a load on this, given the elusive playfulness of Tasset's intelligence.” David Frankel, ArtForum, February 2001.