Nancy Davenport "Workers (leaving the factory)"
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery
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The Workers project was conceived in 2004 as a constantly evolving, long term endeavor and it has been significantly transformed, expanded and reformatted for each exhibition context. While Davenport makes reference here to the disappearing Sergei Tretyakov model of long term observation in social documentary, the combination of quasi-documentary and straight documentary narratives, digital manipulation and deadpan humor in each variation of Workers offers an utterly contemporary critique of our globalized culture —successively tender, tragic and hilarious.
For the installation at Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, four elements are presented for the first time. A separate screen in the exhibition space is dedicated to the DVD entitled—Credits. This piece is dominated by an animated sequence of large, vivid text which names all the people who have participated so far in the production of Workers. With the Trailer photographs, each image presents the frame-by-frame layout of a non-existent Workers film trailer and is a structural reversal of how the still photography functions in the DVDs. Like many mainstream previews which promote future films, the majority of frames in the Trailer photographs differ considerably or do not appear at all in the Workers DVDs.
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Schedule
from April 04, 2008 to May 03, 2008