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CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
December 13 - February 25, 2017Info
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Reception
December 13, 2016 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Image: Melanie Gilligan, The Common Sense, 2014; film still.
Melanie Gilligan: 2016 Capp Street Artist-In-Residence
The system is broken. The system is rigged. Statements like these are familiar to a politically polarized American public, but rarely does political rhetoric go beyond the sound bite. The celebrity dimension of politics distracts from a detailed understanding of the economic forces that shape our lives. But Melanie Gilligan pays close attention to those forces.
Through complex installations of her low-budget films, Gilligan offers powerful reflections on life in late capitalism. Blurring the distinctions between episodic television, documentary film, gallery exhibition, and theater, she presents remarkably perceptive assessments of the political conditions of our time.
Melanie Gilligan (b. 1979, Toronto) lives and works between New York and London.
This exhibition is curated by Leila Grothe. Lead sponsorship for Melanie Gilligan: 2016 Capp Street Artist-In-Residence is generously provided by Sonya Yu and Zachary Lara.
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Yuki Kimura: Inhuman Transformation of New Year's Decoration, Obsolete Conception or 2
Yuki Kimura translates abstract ideas into tangible objects. Because concept is paramount, her work borrows elements from architecture, design, photography, and sculpture in service of making the immaterial material. She often includes found photographs, but their subject matter, composition, and context are subordinate to their presence as physical objects.
The elements in this exhibition of new work are doubled and multiplied. Pairs of photographs are blown up to human scale and hung together on a wall or transformed into matching tabletops. Identical twin images reference a traditional Japanese New Year's decoration that symbolizes the idea of a mirror, as well as a western philosophical concept of time in which past and present are intertwined.
Yuki Kimura (b. 1971, Kyoto, Japan) lives and works in Berlin.
This exhibition is co-curated by Jeanne Gerrity and Leila Grothe. Lead sponsorship for Yuki Kimura: Inhuman Transformation of New Year's Decoration, Obsolete Conception or 2 is generously provided by Sonya Yu and Zachary Lara. Additional support provided by John MacMahon; The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles; Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo; Jägermeister; and Sidney Frank Importing Co., Inc.
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