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Article: Jim Sanborn at the Corcoran.(Washington, D.C.)
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- Art in America
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- February 1, 2005
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Jim Sanborn's complex installation "Critical Assembly," the most striking part of his exhibition called "Atomic Time: Pure Science and Seduction," consisted of a room full of scientific equipment related to the development of the first atomic bomb in 1945, at Los Alamos, N.M. It included actual electronic instruments, tools and furniture from the Los Alamos laboratory of the '40s, '50s and '60s, which the artist obtained from project retirees, along with other elements that he created. What was unusual about the work was how much narrative force these objects carried. They dealt with the most crucial thresholds we know of, those between matter and energy, and life and ...