Pipilotti Rist "Heroes of Birth"

Luhring Augustine Gallery

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This exhibition includes the debut of two video installations as well as a more intimately-scaled video sculpture.

Layers Mama Layers (2010), in the gallery’s main space, will extend and amplify the experiential nature of Rist’s recent work. The space will be filled with translucent fabrics descending from the ceiling and shifting projections. The cascading and ghostly gray cloth becomes an undulating canvas for the projections, as do the viewers as they wind through this otherworldly space. Layers Mama Layers demonstrates an evolution in Rist’s practice, with elements not often seen in her past work such as the use of text.

In the entry gallery, All or Nothing (2010) will be presented. Mounted on the wall, this triptych of screens will feature imagery of body parts rippling in rhythmic motion, mesmerizing in their perpetual search for synchronicity in bodily language that walks the line between the erotic and the spiritual. The rear gallery will be covered in a wallpaper designed by Rist and will feature Massachusetts Chandelier (2010), a luminous, tiered chandelier-like object suspended from the ceiling. The work, made of a metal skeleton draped in second-hand underpants, will be filled with warm light and lit by two projections.

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Schedule

from September 11, 2010 to October 16, 2010

Opening Reception on 2010-09-10 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Pipilotti Rist

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