Adel Abdessemed: Dead or Alive
For his first solo New York exhibition, Adel Abdessemed brings together video and sculptural work whose condensed dramatic gestures are born of the meeting place of opposing forces: of individuality and the body politic, desire and death and the sacred and the profane.
Knives turned in on themselves, oversize drill bits carved from black marble, the front portion of an airplane folded like soft pastry simultaneously invoke the specter of destruction as the celebrate its transformative energy. Alongside these will be shown a series of videos in which abrupt actions challenge our perceptions of taboo and in doing so wring meaning from quotidian exchanges of nature and culture, love and cruelty.
Organized by P.S.1 Senior Curatorial Advisor Neville Wakefield
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Written on Oct. 17, 07
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Feb 18 - Mar 18, 2010
In the Words of Duras Festival
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The works of Marguerite Duras, France’s well-known author, playwright and film director, will be celebrated during a month-long multidisciplinary festival in New York City from February 18 to March 18. Known for her evocative and experimental free-flowing style, Marguerite Duras revolutionized the form of the twentieth century novel, and her innovations also carried to the screen and stage. At the initiative of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, and in partnership with Anthology [+]
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