Su Friedrich "re:working"
Microscope Gallery
This event has ended.
Friedrich began as a photographer, and the early black and whites photos in the show reveal a developed eye already exploring the issues of sexual identity, Catholicism, the tensions between documentary & fiction and other themes she continues to deal with today. Her detailed private work journals and drawings, which she has meticulously kept for each of her films, expose not only the process behind each, but Friedrich as a poet and an artist. And with her new filmstrip prints and digital collage works Friedrich revisits her photographic roots. Beginning with footage from her films and videos, frames are reordered and rearranged into new composite images, which sometimes complement and sometimes lead to entirely new interpretations of the images in the film.
Other highlights: Friedrich’s embroidery of human organs and flowers climbing on a six-foot long vine, which she is seen stitching in her 2002 film The Odds of Recovery, and a map of Williamsburg, Brooklyn detailing the 164 construction and demolition sites she videotaped for her current work-in-progress, which deals with rapid gentrification of the neighborhood she lived in for twenty years.
A program of Friedrich’s early short b&w, silent films will be on installation and a selection of the filmmaker’s longer works related to the exhibit are also available for viewing on site.
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Schedule
from May 14, 2011 to June 06, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-05-14 from 18:00 to 21:00