Marie Lorenz "Archiperago"
Jack Hanley
This event has ended.
He looked up from the map and stared out the window. And I stared out the window, too. The glass in our windows is thick and leaded. And beyond the windows – the Zone. There it is, just reach out and you can touch it. From the thirteenth floor it looks like it could fit in the palm of your hand.
From “Roadside Picnic” by Arkady and Boris Stragatsky
The Jack Hanley Gallery presents its second solo exhibition by Marie Lorenz. Traveling New York City’s waterways by tidal current in a boat that she designed and built, Lorenz accesses an unusual perspective of a familiar locale. Viewed from the waterline, the buoyant, estranged metropolis interrupts our collective and habitual experience of it, reminding us that we can ‘un-know’ a place by continuing to explore it.
The exhibition is made up of three videos projected together with objects found along the harbors. “The tide acts like a giant centrifuge,” writes the artist, “reorganizing things according to their shape and density”. In “collaboration” with the tide, Lorenz makes a record of these objects by printing, casting, or videotaping them. Each video was shot from an apparatus connected to the body of the artist and to the boat while en route from Barren Island to her home in Bushwick. This same geographical path is shown three different ways: from a birds-eye view of the artist, at the horizon line and along the shifting contour of the land.
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Schedule
from March 07, 2012 to March 31, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-03-10 from 18:00 to 20:00