On view on High Line Channel 14 | Body LanguageFeaturing works by Hannah Black and Sara Magenhe
On view on High Line Channel 14 | Body LanguageFeaturing works by Hannah Black and Sara Magenheimer Body Language is a group exhibition in video format that focuses on two emerging artists whose video works explore the ways in which language determines and is eluded by our relationships to our bodies. While speech is inherently sculpted by our hand gestures and powered by our larynx, vocal chords, and lungs, it also creates bodily distinctions that we would not necessarily otherwise perceive.Hannah Black (b. Manchester, United Kingdom)The Neck (2014) This film brings together her memory of not including joints such as necks, ankles, and wrists in childhood drawings with larger political questions about mediation. Team Jolie (2013) This work alternates between close-cropped images of Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston – subjects of a high profile celebrity feud – while recounting the artist’s own personal experience of embodying stereotypical female roles.Sara Magenheimer (b. 1981, Philadelphia)From the Movie of the Same Name (2016)Disembodied proper names march across a black screen for this work. Best is Man’s Breath Quality (2017)A jellyfish – a creature whose “intelligence is in [its] body” – narrates Magenheimer’s second featured work, raising questions about the differences between humans’ relationships to their bodies and animals’ relationships to their bodies. -- source link
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