"So to Speak" Exhibition
BRIC
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BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn presents So to Speak, an exhibition at BRIC Rotunda Gallery. Each work in the exhibition weighs the difference between these two forms of expression, reflecting on the faults, slippages, and tensions that arise when representing images with words. Curated by Emily Berçir Zimmerman, as part of the Lori Ledis Emerging Curator Program.
So to Speak presents artworks by four artists – Fiona Banner, Hollis Frampton, Melinda McDaniel and Klub Zwei – that question the status of the photographic image as a purveyor of truth, and the predominance of still and moving images within the current visual regime. It also seeks to draw attention to the use of text in the exhibition itself – wall labels, postcards, brochures, and other documentation – to speak for objects, deeply altering their meaning.
Hollis Frampton’s Poetic Justice (1972) is a 31-minute film narrated by a series of sheets of written text describing each scene. Fiona Banner’s Smokey Nude (2006) is a verbal portrait of an unseen nude model. Melinda McDaniel’s Movie Lines series depicts the short, one-line descriptions of movies found in television programming menus to reflect absurd paraphrasing and present day attention spans. Klub Zwei’s film Black and White: the other side of images presents a discussion of documentation from the Holocaust, taking into consideration the veracity of images that the viewer is never allowed see.
Media
Schedule
from March 21, 2012 to April 28, 2012