'kate gilmore'

55 artists are chosen by the curators Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari, a lot fewer than earlier years. Can be great if each artist get more space and room. Until the end of May one can visit the Whitney Biennial and there are some works worth staying longer together with.  Altogether the show is kind of silent and cautious. But boring is the last expression one can use for the furious and desperate installation by Kate Gilmore who struggles to get out of a self-made tower wearing a polka-dot dress and high-heels. With muscles and high-heel shoes she crashes the tower bit by bit.

Will we obey the direct orders of Marianne Vitale who welcomes us to the future of Neutralism in her video “Patron”? In a monologue that reminds you of manifestos from early modernist movements she performs as a poet and a sergeant in the military at the same time. What surreal or nonsense sentences can one say loud in an authoritarian manner?

Totally different and poetic is ”Parole”, a video installation by Sharon Hayes where I at first thought I saw political speeches on the streets, then performances by different people, and then ended up hearing love letters being read? Fiction and documentary, you can’t be sure. Is it about persons or societies? You can shift in between seeing and listening, the voices embrace you in the room and you yourself become an active participant when moving around in the small space.

Or, the film- and video- installation of Kerry Tribe showing a man with a memory which lasts only twenty seconds. After a brain-surgery in the fifties he can’t remember anything dated longer back than a few seconds. What is a life without a memory? Existential and ephemeral about human life.

 

 

 

 

She struggled and disappeared. A shot from the installation by Kate Gilmore. Sorry, took a photo although it was not allowed at all at. Whitney, why? Torun She struggled and disappeared. A shot from the installation by Kate Gilmore. Sorry, took a photo although it was not allowed at all at. Whitney, why? Torun
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