Mathias Poledna "Crystal Palace"

The New Museum of Contemporary Art

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Mathias Poledna's new work, Crystal Palace, is a 35mm film installation comprised of a small number of long, static shots of the montane rainforest landscape of the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea. Using tightly framed medium-close to medium-wide shots, the film's carefully selected scenes focus on the complex patterns, textures, and the overall abstract qualities of this environment, seemingly without human presence. Only subtle changes in light and movement in foliage provide visual cues to the passage of time. The film is accompanied by a dense and highly edited soundtrack created from on-location and archival field recordings, oscillating between drone-like noise and distinct insect and bird sounds. Simultaneously engaging with as well as collapsing cinematic conventions of narrative development and closure, Poledna's film explores the ambiguities and constructed nature of historical representation. This project is curated by Russell Ferguson, Adjunct Curator, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and organized at the New Museum by Jarrett Gregory, Curatorial Assistant. This exhibition is made possible, in part, with the support of the Austrian Cultural Forum New York.

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Schedule

from January 28, 2009 to March 08, 2009

Artist(s)

Mathias Poledna

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    matt: (2009-03-06 at 18:03)

    eco drone structuralism - i like it.

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