Kathleen Herbert “Stable”
Museum of Biblical Art
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Kathleen Herbert uses the medium of performance and documentary to question and engage with the historical and contemporary functions of space. “Stable” (2007), super 16mm film, was produced in response to a residency at Gloucester Cathedral, inspired by historical events. During the Commonwealth period in England, Puritan troops, in an act of political bravado, used the Cathedral to stable horses. It also evokes Christ’s Nativity through the stable setting and presence of animals in a sacred space. Through use of the uncanny, the film blurs boundaries between fact and fiction, myth and reality, investigating ideas around superstition, rituals and histories. Herbert draws out the apparent uninteresting or unspoken, redefining social, political, historic spatial narratives.
[Image: Kathleen Herbert “Stable” (2007) Video Still. Courtesy the Artist and Danielle Arnaud, London]
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from March 07, 2014 to June 08, 2014