Elisabeth Subrin "Her Compulsion to Repeat"
Sue Scott Gallery
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This solo exhibition of work by Elisabeth Subrin presents the premiere of her new video installation "Lost Tribes and Promised Lands" and her 2008 two-channel projection "Sweet Ruin." Installed in the related project space are selected films, videos and photographic stills spanning nearly twenty years. In her complexly layered and deeply emotional work, Subrin mines the elusive intersections of history and female subjectivity in an effort to excavate and deconstruct both dominant and minor narratives. Investigating the residual impact of recent social movements, the nature of evidence, and the poetics of psychological "disorder," Subrin's projects rarely take the same form, working across narrative, documentary and conceptual art practices and production models. Her "Compulsion to Repeat" is organized around one of her primary preoccupations— the repetition and re-enactment of primal scenes from the past. Her latest installation "Lost Tribes and Promised Lands," presents views of Williamsburg, Brooklyn on twin projections shot by Subrin on 16mm film: one made in the days following September 11, 2001, the other presenting the same locations on the same date in 2008. Critic Ed Halter writes that "Lost Tribes" “offers a bittersweet meditation on loss, longing and the passage of time, achingly personal and sharply political.” Originally commissioned as a response to Michelangelo Antonioni's never-produced 1966 screenplay "Technically Sweet," and shot on outdated 16mm stock to mimic discarded footage from a feature film production, "Sweet Ruin" reworks elements of the original script into a meditation on love, violence and double identity, starring actor Gaby Hoffman in a dual role.
[Image: Elisabeth Subrin "Sweet Ruin" (2008) 2 channel video projection, 10:00 loop]
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from January 23, 2010 to February 26, 2010
Opening Reception on 2010-01-23 from 18:00 to 20:00