Runa Islam
dal 26/5/2011 al 18/9/2011
Segnalato da
26/5/2011
Runa Islam
The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA, New York
British artist Runa Islam primarily works in film and video. Ostensibly austere and minimal, her works are marked by a rigorous logic of conception but also a highly poetic style, and often involve the grammar of film its languages of framing, panning, zooming, editing, and projection. For Projects 95, Islam produced a newly commissioned work.
British artist Runa Islam (b. 1970, Dhaka, Bangladesh) primarily works in film and video. Ostensibly austere and minimal, her works are marked by a rigorous logic of conception but also a highly poetic style, and often involve the grammar of film—its languages of framing, panning, zooming, editing, and projection. For instance, for her film C I N E M A T O G R A P H Y (2007), Islam employed a motion-control camera that was used for the Lord of the Rings film trilogy to spell out "cinematography?" through camera movement, capturing the landscape and studio of a camera technician who had worked on the trilogy.
Yet her films can also be playfully poetic and stunningly beautiful. For First Day of Spring (2005), which is in MoMA's collection, Islam paid a group of Bangladeshi rickshaw operators to have a day of leisure in the middle of the public park, where she filmed them relaxing on their rickshaws under the shade of trees, calling into question the distinction between documentary and staged filmmaking. For Projects 95, Islam will produce a newly commissioned work.
Organized by Christian Rattemeyer, The Harvey S. Shipley Miller Associate Curator of Drawings.
The Elaine Dannheisser Projects Series is made possible in part by The Junior Associates of The Museum of Modern Art.
Additional support for this exhibition is provided by The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art.
Image: Runa Islam. Magical Consciousness. 2010. 16mm film (black-and-white film, silent), 8:22. Commissioned by Museum Contemporary Art, Sydney, and Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. Courtesy the artist and White Cube
Press Contact: Kim Donica, 212-708-9752, kim_donica@moma.org
Opening May 21, 2011
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