Still form Cake and Steak, 2002, 16mm Film |
Faculty member and 2005-06 Radcliffe Institute fellow Abigail Child presents an exhibition of films and prints, "Montage and Melodrama," on view April 3 through April 22, in the Baker Room of Agassiz
House, Radcliffe Yard. In these films and prints, Child becomes a feminist Muybridge, utilizing montage to break down everyday gestures and genres to reveal unconscious and otherwise invisible patterns. Child’s work treats time as sculpture, alive to both the formal world of film and the emotional content of lived moments. In these films, images, sound, and words are treated as plastic matter, open to re-arrangement, liberated from predetermined meanings, and awake to the seductions of humor, digression, ambiguity, and transformation. An opening talk will be held Monday, April 3 at 4 pm in Cronkhite Center, 6
Ash Street. A reception will follow in Gilman Room, Agassiz House,
Radcliffe Yard. For more information about the exhibition and related events, visit the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
Child has exhibited extensively since 1987 in both solo and group shows. Recent solo exhibitions include The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, ICA London, the Whitney Museum, and New Museum in NYC. Click here to read more about Abigail Child and see images of her work.
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