Eija-Liisa Ahtila and Chantal Akerman Exhibition
Marian Goodman Gallery
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Women from Antwerp in November, 2007 is a two-channel installation which will be on view in the South Gallery. The work was originally commissioned for inclusion in Akerman’s first American museum survey which is currently touring the U.S.: Chantal Akerman: Moving through Time and Space, on view through the end of March at the Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, and opening May 1st at MIT’s List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge; then traveling to Miami, St. Louis, and San Francisco through 2010.
Comprised of two monumentally scaled projections alternating between color and black-and-white, Women from Antwerp in November features short vignettes of women smoking at night in various street settings. These short narratives – presented together as a ‘landscape’ in a long horizontal, split-screen format – offer a compelling array of psychological and emotional scenarios of ‘before’ and ‘after’ as women engage in wordless social interplay, lingering on the sidewalk, walking in the rain, ambling in from an evening out. On the opposite wall, a single-frame portrait -- a ‘face’ -- shows a languid four-minute loop filmed in black and white of a young woman lighting, smoking and extinguishing her cigarette.
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Schedule
from March 29, 2008 to April 30, 2008