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14/7/2000

Martha Rosler

New Museum, New York


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Positions in the Lifeworld
First Floor Gallery, Mezzanine

The first retrospective of one of the most influential American artists of the last thirty years, Martha Rosler: Positions in the Life World, brings together all aspects of her seminal video works, photography, performance, installation, and critical theory. Martha Rosler is a pioneer in exploring the underpinnings of such contemporary cultural phenomena as the objectification of women and the globalization of economies. She was among the first artists to challenge the myth and mystique of photographic reality, and has helped expand the definitions of art by effortlessly combining an incisive critique of value systems with a humorous and accessible narrative style.

In one of her most important projects, The Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems (1974/75), black and white photographs of Bowery storefronts hang adjacent to clusters of typewritten words that are synonyms for the word "drunk." The piece, which avoids depictions of homeless people, pointedly subverts documentary photography's assertion of objectivity and accuracy. Rights of Passage (1994-96) is a series of color photographs of highways, road signage, vehicles transporting goods, and highway construction sites that point to the erosion of geography, history, community, and liberty that can result from urbanization.

Martha Rosler's work is embraced within a wide range of fields including art history, architecture and urbanism, women's studies, sociology, cultural studies, theater, and video. Her work is an important touchstone for succeeding generations of artists such as Cindy Sherman, Louise Lawler and Sherrie Levine.

The New Museum is collaborating with the International Center for Photography http://www.icp.org to present this exhibition. Martha Rosler: Positions in the Life World was organized by Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK and Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria. A fully illustrated book accompanies the exhibition.

The exhibition is supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The New Museum presentation is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, Nancy and Joel Portnoy, and the Producers Council of the New Museum.

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