Isaac Julien "Ten Thousand Waves"
Metro Pictures
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"Ten thousand waves take us to the shore / Home will arrive under our feet"
– Wang Ping, "The Great Summons"
Isaac Julien's "Ten Thousand Waves" photographs, on view at Metro Pictures, are the photographic component of his nine-screen film installation of the same name, which was recently presented at the Sydney Biennial, the Hayward Gallery in London, and the Bass Art Museum in Miami Beach. Julien's large-scale photographs were produced while making the encompassing installation, and are meticulously staged in the dramatic settings constructed for the film. Photographed throughout rural and urban China, the series resulted from the artist's deep immersion in the nation's culture following the 2004 Morecambe Bay tragedy, in which 23 Chinese cockle-pickers died one evening in northwest England, drowned by the incoming tide.
[Image: Isaac Julien 2010 "Red Chamber Dream" two Endura Ultra photographs 70.87 x 90.55 in (each image size)]
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Schedule
from March 18, 2011 to April 30, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-03-18 from 18:00 to 20:00