Renée Green, Secret, 1993
Artist: Renée Green (born 1959, Cleveland, OH, USA; lives and works in Cambridge, MA). Description: “Comprised of a video in three parts with soundtracks in English and French, along with dozens of black-and-white photographs, Secret reflects on the artist’s experience inhabiting a semi-deserted apartment in Le Corbusier’s concrete housing block, Unité d’habitation, located in Firminy, […]
Armando Andrade Tudela, Espace Niemeyer (Filmstill), 2007
Artist: Armando Andrade Tudela (born 1975 in Lima, Peru; lives and works in Saint-Étienne, France). Materials: 16-mm film, transferred to DVD; 10 min. Description: The façade of Oscar Niemeyer’s iconic communist headquarters building in Paris partially superimposed with the light of an infrared lamp—an image of utopian reality transformed by visual abstraction.
Dora García, Film (Hôtel Wolfers), 2007
Artist: Dora García (born 1965 in Valladolid, Spain; lives and works in Barcelona, Spain). Materials: 35-mm film, black-and-white, sound, transferred to video; 11 min 30 sec. Description: “The camera’s eye tours through an abandoned house. Accurately it scans the walls, the window panes in their metal grooves and the light rooms. Its gaze slides over […]
Yael Bartana, Summer Camp / Awodah, 2007
Artist: Yael Bartana (born 1970 in Kfar Yehezkel, Israel; lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Berlin, Germany). Materials: Two-channel video and sound installation; 12 min. Description: “Summer Camp shows the activities of ‘The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions’ (ICAHD); their actions consist amongst others of rebuilding Palestinian houses in the occupied territories. In the […]
Andreas Fogarasi, Kultur und Freizeit, 2007
Artist: Andreas Fogarasi (born 1977 in Vienna, Austria; lives and works in Vienna). Description: “From June to November 2007 the Hungarian Pavilion of the 52nd Venice Biennale showcases Andreas Fogarasi’s project Kultur und Freizeit (Culture and Leisure) curated by Katalin Timar. The project focuses on cultural peripheries and the separation of the locations of popular […]
Cyprien Gaillard, Desniansky Raion, 2007
Artist: Cyprien Gaillard (born 1980 in Paris, France; lives and works in New York City, USA and Berlin, Germany). Materials: Video with sound; 30 min. Description: “The three-part video opens with a static establishing shot of Genex Tower, the colossal, Brutalist style building in Belgrade, Serbia, whose twin concrete towers are connected near the top […]
Luis Jacob, A Dance for Those of Us Whose Hearts Have Turned to Ice, Based on the Choreography of Françoise Sullivan and the Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth, 2007
Artist: Luis Jacob (born 1970 in Lima, Peru; lives and works in Toronto, Canada). Materials: Three-channel video installation; 426 x 365 x 240 cm. Description: “Jacob’s work explores the relationship between sculpture and dance, and takes its inspiration from two seemingly disparate art historical sources—the sculpture of British artist Barbara Hepworth, and the choreography of […]
Judi Werthein, The Functional Family, 2007
Artist: Judi Werthein (born 1967 in Buenos Aires, Argentina; lives and works in Buenos Aires and Brooklyn, New York). Materials: Single channel video, HD, color, sound; 13 min. Description: A performance recorded at the site of The Sonneveld House—considered an emblematic historic example of Nieuwe Bouwen, the Dutch branch of functionalism—Werthein’s film reenacts an uneventful day […]
Falke Pisano, Chillida (Forms and Feelings), 2006
Artist: Falke Pisano (born 1978 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; lives and works in Berlin, Germany). Materials: 2-channel video; 13 min 50 sec. Description: “Chillida (Forms and Feelings) is a personal inquiry into my affective relation to a series of photographs taken by the photographer David Finn of sculptures by the Basque sculptor Chillida. While going […]
Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Always After (The Glass House), 2006
Artist: Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle (born 1961 in Madrid, Spain; lives and works in Chicago, USA). Materials: Super-16 mm film transferred to HD video; 9 min 41 sec. Description: “His 2006 work Always After (The Glass House) is the fifth installment in a series of film-based works—created between 2000 and 2006—that directly engage the architecture of Mies van der […]
