The Boston Globe, February 2, 2000.
Each/Other, Video Installation, 1998
A collaboration between
Inga McCaslin Frick and Gillian Brown
“Among the other notably strong water inspired pieces in the show are Pat Steir’s familiar drenched-looking canvases, the action of the paint cascading downward; Kiki Smith’s long horizontal “Tidal,” prints of a repeating moon suggesting its various phases, all hanging over a crinkled-paper sea; and Gillian Brown and Inge McCaslin Frick’s video installation “Each/Other.” This last is a fragment of historic black-and-white footage of a woman swimming the English Channel, simultaneously projected on two surfaces that angle outward like a book. The swimmer eventually meets herself in the middle, in a sensual Rorschach that then dissolves. It’s astonising that the creators of such voluptuousness have also contributed the most repulsive work in the show. Upstairs in hell, where it belongs, is the Brown/Frick, “Untitled (cockroaches),” a video in which the bugs seem to consume a wall, itself a stand-in for skin, meant as impermeable yet being eaten away.”