Laurel Nakadate Exhibition

MOMA PS1

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Laurel Nakadate is known for her works in video, photography, and feature-length film. This is Nakadate's first large-scale museum exhibition and will feature works made in the last ten years in all three media, including her early video works, in which she was invited into the homes of anonymous men to dance, pose, or even play dead in their kitchens, bedrooms, and living rooms.

Also included will be Good Morning, Sunshine (2009), a more recent work in which Nakadate enters the bedrooms of young women, waking them, and instructs each to strip to their underwear for the camera. Nakadate's two features, Stay the Same Never Change (2009) and The Wolf Knife (2010) mine similar terrain--the power and fragility of the adolescent female body. The exhibition will also be the premiere of Nakadate's latest photographic series 365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears, currently in progress. These photographs document a year-long performance that began on January 1, 2010 in which the artist documented, and continues to document herself before, during, and after weeping each day.

The exhibition brings together bodies of work that touch on voyeurism, loneliness, the manipulative power of the camera, and the urge to connect with others, through, within, and apart from technology and the media.

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Schedule

from January 23, 2011 to August 15, 2011

Opening Reception on 2011-01-23 from 12:00 to 18:00

Artist(s)

Laurel Nakadate

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