Lehmann Maupin is pleased to announce the New York showing of Trap Door, a film installation by Liisa Roberts originally commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art Oxford for the exhibition Scream and Scream Again: Film in Art.

Trap Door is a film installation composed of four 16 mm silent film projections displayed on four freestanding screens usng front and rear-screen projection. While three of the screens are arranged in a triangular configuration, the fourth is a cinemascope-sized screen facing one side of the triangle. The interrelated images and words projected on the screen construct a virtual space for the viewer’s experience of the piece. A trap door is an artifact that, partially hidden of disguised in the architecture of room, secretly communicates that space with another. A trap door simultaneously belongs to the space of a room and contradicts it; it can be partially hidden or clearly visible depending on whose eyes see it.