EXHIBITION

Mary Helena Clark, USA, digital, 19 min, 2022

Pivoting between two stories of women and their relationships with objects—a Swedish woman’s marriage to the Berlin Wall, and a suffragist’s hatcheting of Velásquez’s The Toilet of Venus—Mary Helena Clark’s Exhibition is a maze-like tour through images and artifacts, a dense cryptography of the forms and objects that hold us in.—Leo Goldsmith

I’m not a woman. I’m a doorknob.—Agnes

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Mary Helena Clark (1983). Works in film, video, and installation; 10+ films since 2008; screenings at venues including Open City Documentary Film Festival, New York FiIm Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Berlinale, Toronto International Film Festival, Media City Film Festival, and 25 FPS. Curator of film programs for Nightingale Cinema and Flaherty NYC at Anthology Film Archives. Lives in New York, New York.

Too Bright To See

Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, USA, 16mm > digital, 27.5 min, 2023

Too Bright to See draws on Hunt-Ehrlich’s extensive research into the legacy of Suzanne Roussi-Césaire, a writer and anticolonial and feminist activist from Martinique who, along with her husband, Aimé Césaire, was at the forefront of the Négritude movement during the first half of the 20th century. Roussi-Césaire would also become an important Surrealist thinker, influencing the likes of painter Wifredo Lam and writer André Breton. However, despite her critical contributions to Caribbean thought and Surrealist discourse, until recently much of her work was overlooked.—Pérez Art Museum Miami

Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich (1987). 10+ films since 2013; screenings at venues including Tate Modern, Berlinale, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Venice Biennale (2022), Bienal de São Paulo (2023), and BlackStar Film Festival. Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” (2020), Princess Grace Award (2014), Creative Capital Award (2022), Herb Alpert Award (2023). Lives in New York, New York.

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 10 6:00PM