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Thursday, May 18
CLOSING RECEPTION
Thursday, May 18
Admission: FREE
7 - 8pm Informal meeting with artist
8 - 10pm Viewing
free drinks early
The Yellow Line, a new four-channel video installation
by Irit Batsry,
inaugurates a new exhibition series at Monkey Town in Williamsburg,
Brooklyn.
In The Yellow Line, Irit Batsry uses Monkey Town's four-screen
environment to surround the viewers with images of people behind
black and yellow tapes used to mark the boundary of a film set.
The margins of the set become the center of attention. The onlookers
on location become the subject of this work as well as its "actors".
The yellow line—a thin separation between the quotidian
and cinematic artifice—becomes a protagonist.
The poverty that dominates Brazil's Northeast interior is apparent
in the images Batsry recorded in the town of Iguatu, on the set
of a new (yet untitled) film by Karim Ainouz (Madame Satã).
But the people shown are not reduced to their economic and social
circumstances. The Yellow Line is one part in an ongoing cycle
of works that originate from material shot by Batsry on the sets
of three Brazilian feature films.
The first in the cycle, Set, a multi-channel
video installation and architectural outdoor projection was shown
at the Whitney Museum in 2003-2004. "(Ms. Batsry) displays
an unusual ability to draw rich pictorial, symbolic and poetic
resonances from the nuts and bolts of filmmaking, and she shows
a sure grasp of the inextricable unity of form and content, or
structure and meaning, that is scarce in contemporary art."
-- Roberta Smith, The New York Times, 1/9/2004.
The second, Through the Looking, an
exhibition including installations, video and photography was
recently shown at the Shoshana
Wayne Gallery in Santa Monica.
The Yellow Line: produced by Irit Batsry Studio;
curated with Montgomery Knott and Karyn
Riegel.
Irit Batsry is the recipient of the prestigious
Whitney Biennial Bucksbaum Award in 2002. She received the Guggenheim
Foundation Fellowship (1992) and the Grand Prix of the Société
Civile des Auteurs Multimedia, Paris (1996 and 2001). Her work
has been shown extensively in 35 different countries including
shows at the National Gallery (Washington), the National Film
Theater and the ICA (London), Reina Sofia (Madrid) and Museu de
Arte Moderna (Rio). These Are Not My Images (neither there nor
here), her feature length work, was recently acquired and screened
by The MoMA (New York)
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Every 6 - 8 weeks Monkey Town will feature mulit-channel video
and sound installations from artists around the world. If you
would like to submit works for consideration, please contact us
at: monkeytownhq@aol.com
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