Qbox gallery
Athens
Armodiou st. 10, Varvakios agora
211 1199991
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Megan and Murray McMillan
dal 19/3/2010 al 17/5/2010
Tue-Fri 14-20, sat 12-16

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19/3/2010

Megan and Murray McMillan

Qbox gallery, Athens

What We Loved and Forgot is a photography and video installation exhibition by the American artists. In the installation 3 lily structures fill the gallery space, creating an alcove that the audience can enter like a bower inside a thicket of flowers. Within the lily structure is a video in which a man rises out of an armchair and walks up a ramp and disappears off-screen while performers are building these lilies.


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Qbox gallery is pleased to present What We Loved and Forgot, a photography and video installation exhibition by the American artists Megan and Murray McMillan in their second solo exhibition at the gallery.

In early 2009, Megan and Murray McMillan answered an advertisement for a large assortment of yellow plastic used for cable management infrastructure for the industrial building construction. The person was offering the material for free to whoever could collect it. They met with the advertiser, who had been recently widowed and found out that the plastic had left over from her late husband’s business. Her only request was that they use the material to make something beautiful. That experience created the basis of the structure the artists ultimately made from the material: a type of flower called day lilies, which bloom at sunrise and wither at sunset. These lilies reminded the artists of the passage in One Hundred Years of Solitude, where yellow flowers rain down and blanket the town after José Arcadio Buendía’s death.

In the installation What We Loved and Forgot, three lily structures fill the gallery space, creating an alcove that the audience can enter like a bower inside a thicket of flowers. Within the lily structure is a video in which a man rises out of an armchair and walks up a ramp and disappears off-screen while performers are building these lilies. In the kitchen, a woman is cooking, unaware of the dream world around her.

Megan and Murray McMillan are video, photography and installation artists who have been collaborating since 2002. They have exhibited nationally and internationally including the National Museum of Art in La Paz, Bolivia, and the State Museum of Contemporary Art in Greece, where they participated in the 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale. They have been artists in residence in Barcelona, Athens, Turku and Kokar, Finland. In 2007, they were in film festivals in Austria, Croatia, Romania, Switzerland, London and Los Angeles and participated in the 10th International Istanbul Biennial (2007) in Turkey. Their solo show at White Flag Projects in St Louis was reviewed in the Nov 2007 issue of Art in America.

Megan McMillan (born 1975, USA) completed post-graduate work in Art History and Critical Theory at California State University Long Beach. Murray McMillan (born 1973, USA) has an MFA in Transmedia from The University of Texas at Austin and a BFA from Kansas City Art Institute. Murray is currently an assistant professor at Roger Williams University. The McMillans have been married since 1997 and live and work in Providence, Rhode Island.

Preview Saturday, 20 March, 7-10 pm

Qbox gallery
10, Armodiou Str., 10552 Athens
Opening hours: Tuesday - Friday 14 - 20
Saturday 12 - 16 or by appointment
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