Eija-Liisa Ahtila Exhibition
Marian Goodman Gallery
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An exhibition of new work by Eija-Liisa Ahtila presenting the North American premiere of "The Annunciation" (2010) in the North Gallery, a new series of drawings, "Anthropomorphic Exercises on Film," in the North Gallery Viewing Room, and a multi-screen video work, "Horizontal," in the South Gallery.
Eija-Liisa Ahtila has long been considered a master of the multimedia form. Her work is conceptually organized around the construction of image, language, narrative, and space, and she has often probed individual identity and the boundaries of the subject in relation to the external world. Using the visual language of cinema, Ahtila presents large-scale installations with split-screen projections on multiple panels. These viewing conditions, with their simultaneously charged vantage points, break the idea of cinematic perspective and construct an experience of several coexisting times and spaces for being.
In her most recent works she critically examines the cinematic mechanisms for perceiving and presenting the world and looks at the dramaturgy of the moving image from the posthumanist point of view. Instead of creating a coherent character subject, she aims at decentering the human in relation to the other creatures and surroundings depicted in the work. She poses the question: how will the dramatic narration be transformed if it is not based on human centered action? What will the character subject form into and what implications will it have on “acting” or being in the image?
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Schedule
from October 25, 2011 to December 03, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-10-25 from 18:00 to 20:00