About Paul Pfeiffer

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    "Frame by Frame, an Artist Distills What Sports Cameras Blur, Paul Pfeiffer’s transcendent manipulations of broadcast footage are intimate confrontations with spectacles meant for millionsm by Travis Diehl, Feb. 3, 2024, The New York Times

    What would a basketball game be like without the ebb and flow of two teams, without the roar of the crowd? Like Paul Pfeiffer’s videos. The multimedia artist, whose first career survey in the United States is on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) through June 16, began with a suite of videos in which the whole seething, popping commotion has been removed from found live footage, leaving the central monumental figure of an athlete.

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