Mary Reid Kelley "The Syphilis of Sisyphus"
Fredericks & Freiser Gallery
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Fredericks & Freiser presents “The Syphilis of Sisyphus,” a new short film by Mary Reid Kelley with artist Patrick Kelley. The exhibition will include a wall-sized projection with costumes and drawings used in the film’s creation. Reid Kelley’s second solo exhibition at Fredericks & Freiser encompasses a heightened level of visual complexity as it continues her exploration of language, history, anomie and sexual politics.
Set in 1852, “The Syphilis of Sisyphus” records the monologue of a young, pregnant Parisian as she traverses the garrets, alleys, and hospitals of her city. Her pun-filled polemics burlesque the Romantic-era contest between ‘Nature’ and ‘Artifice’ that dominated both politics and aesthetics at the time. In imagining the characters and spaces of Paris on the verge of Haussmann’s modernizations, the film collages three centuries of urban visuals, including the Turgot Map, photographer Charles Marville, Honoré Daumier, and Fernand Léger.
Mary Reid Kelley graduated with a MFA from Yale in 2009.
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Schedule
from November 11, 2011 to January 07, 2012
Opening Reception on 2011-11-11 from 18:00 to 20:00