Counting Money — (Amit Kalra)

(Amit Kalra)

Counting Money, 2023. Single-channel video and audio, 19 minutes and 12 seconds; recliner chair, 3.5 x 4.5 x 10 ft, October 1-31, 2023 at Pence-Chowning Gallery, Campbellsville, KY.

Scenes from b-western films from the 1930s and 40s play on a cathode ray tube television facing a lazy boy style recline chair. In the first scene a man signs a document at a table surrounded by other men. Later, a horse rears while tied to a wooden stake. The closing scene features a lone man tied up riding on a buckboard wagon.