Dara Friedman
dal 13/4/2007 al 11/5/2007
Segnalato da
13/4/2007
Dara Friedman
Gavin Brown, New York
Then the shape of the keyhole has it's own power. A new 16 mm film. The exhibition will also include eight large-scale collages.
Tigertail
When you close one eye and make a little telescope with your hand and look down through it, it's like looking through a camera lens, a telescope, tunnel, a keyhole. When I look down the lens, it's as if the horizontal line of the frame, the new horizon, and the verticals, say the trees, the vertical edges of the frame, snap to attention- a 1:1.33 rectangular salute.
I love the rectangle; the rectangle loves. Everything that's placed inside it. Looking at a cross with double vision- voila, a rectangle. Our cosmic order. But it's not only the rectangle, it's also the act of closing one eye and what happens in the brain when you do this. I don't really know what happens - scientifically. But I know it sensationally. You can feel the synapses of the brain being rerouted when you close one eye. With a snap, crackle, pop you fall down a tube and what is there is in focus and has my attention. Tunnel vision. Meditation really. So these views of the keyhole are looking at the Looker.
Then the shape of the keyhole has it's own power. An ankh disguised as a keyhole. I find the downward rays deeply attractive. In any case, I'm not alone. So did Blake and of course the pyramids.
As to "Tigertail", there's a lot to say, so I shouldn't really have kept it for last, but I'm going to keep it short for now. It's the street I live on, and so I suppose that makes "Tigertail" a home movie of sorts. I got there by way of Mallarmé.
Dara Friedman's new 16 mm film, 'Tigertail', will be screened at Gavin Brown's enterprise from April 14th - May 12th 2007. The exhibition will also include eight large-scale collages.
Friedman, born 1968 in Bad Kreuznach, Germany, lives and works in Germany and Miami, Florida. She studied under the Structuralist filmmaker Peter Kubelka at the Staedelschule in Frankfurt, Germany and has been the subject of solo shows at the Kunstmuseum, Switzerland and Site Santa Fe. Her work is included in many international public and private collections, including the permanent collection of MOCA Miami, Saint Louis Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
For further information please contact Madeleine Clare Elish at madeleine@gavinbrown.biz.
Gavin Brown
620 Greenwich Street - New York