Joan Jonas, Wolf Lights (still), 2004-2005, video, 2 mins 53 secs. Image courtesy of the artist and Amanda Wilkinson Gallery, London.
Joan Jonas
Wolf Lights
2004 – 2005
colour video, continuous loop
2 minutes 53 seconds, looped
Edition of 5 + 2 Aps
Jonas’s double-layered video depicts a masked wolf-woman prowling through an array of flickering Las Vegas neon signs. By transforming commercial signage into an all-consuming, saturated landscape that isolates and overwhelms its sole inhabitant, Jonas probes capitalist development and the cultural permeation of its iconography.