“Strange Days: Memories of the Future, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, the New Museum’s Edlis Neeson Artistic Director, in collaboration with The Vinyl Factory, will present the work of twenty-one acclaimed artists and filmmakers who have shown video works at the New Museum in its ten years on the Bowery. Bringing together an extraordinary group of works in video by today’s leading artists, “Strange Days” will consider how images shape memories while anticipating visions of what the future may hold. Weaving together reportage and lyricism, the works on view blend images and sound into polyphonic, dreamlike compositions.
Featured works in the exhibition will include Kahlil Joseph’s Fly Paper (2017), a deeply personal portrait of black cultural life in Harlem, which premiered at the New Museum in the fall of 2017; John Akomfrah’s Vertigo Sea (2015), an epic three-screen meditation on the ocean as an environmental, cultural, and historical force; Camille Henrot’s Grosse Fatigue (2013), in which a rapid succession and layering of images tells the story of creation; and Pipilotti Rist’s video and sound installation 4th Floor To Mildness(2016), a work that featured prominently in the artist’s celebrated 2016 New Museum exhibition. Many of the works will be having their debut presentation in the UK, including those by Joseph, Akomfrah, and Rist, along with Jonathas de Andrade’s O Peixe [The Fish] (2016), Hassan Khan’s Jewel (2010), and others.
Full list of artists:
John Akomfrah
Jonathas de Andrade
Ed Atkins
Camille Henrot
Kahlil Joseph
Hassan Khan
Ragnar Kjartansson
Oliver Laric
Klara Lidén
Maha Maamoun
Daria Martin
Wong Ping
Laure Prouvost
Cheng Ran
Lili Reynaud-Dewar
Pipilotti Rist
Anri Sala
Mounira Al Solh
Cally Spooner
Ryan Trecartin
Wu Tsang
| Duration | 02 October 2018 - 09 December 2018 |
| Times | Tuesday to Saturday, 12pm – 7pm Sunday 12pm – 6pm |
| Cost | Free |
| Venue | The Store X |
| Address | 180 The Strand London WC2R 1EA, , |
| Contact | 44 20 7221 5000 / dtaylor@boltonquinn.com / https://thevinylfactory.com/ |