Cut from Liquid to Snake
Leslie Thornton
Sylvia Kouvali, London | Piraeus
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- Artist
- Leslie Thornton
- Títol
- Cut from Liquid to Snake
- Galeria
- Sylvia Kouvali, London | Piraeus
- Any
- 2018
- Fomart tècnic
- 26 min 13 s
- Format & Tècnica
HD, Single-Channel Video, Colour, Sound
Thornton’s film is formed around several voices – from cold to melancholic, to anxious – all at textural odds with each other. An entry point to the work is the artist’s metaphorical use of the Higgs Boson. The voices range from a phone recording made during the Trump election, to an eyewitness account of the immediate aftermath of the bombing of Hiroshima, and an intimate and distressed encounter between the artist and her partner discussing the Higgs and the difference between thought and language. Interwoven into this new work is Thornton’s complex emotional response to her own family history. Both the artist’s father and grandfather (unbeknownst to each other at the time) were engineers in the Manhattan Project, and it was Thornton’s father who screwed the last bolt into the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. A complex legacy that has preoccupied the artist and her work in an ongoing way.
- Premi Loop Fair 2022
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Leslie Thornton
1951, Knoxville
Leslie Thornton (b. 1951, Tennessee) lives and works in New York. Her group and solo exhibitions and screenings include Begin Again, Again, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (2021); Metabolic Rift, Krafwerk Berlin (2021); The Big Sleep, 4. Biennale, Haus der Kunst, München (2021); New Order: Art and Technology in the Twenty-First Century, MoMA, New York (2021); Ground, Kunstverein Nürnberg, Nürnberg (2020); SPEED (with James Richards), Malmö Konsthall, Malmö (2019); SPEED (with James Richards), Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart (2018); Crossing (with James Richards), Secession, Vienna (2018); Whitney Biennial 2017, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2017); Crossing (with James Richards), Rodeo, London (2016); FemCine, Chile (2015); Park Nights, Serpentine Gallery, London (2013); Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (2013); On Photography, SFMOMA, San Francisco (2012); 53 Museum, Guangzhou, China (2011); Radical Light Program, MoMA, New York (2011); Tate Modern, London (2010); dOCUMENTA (12), Kassel (2007).
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- 41 Polidefkous , 18545, London | Piraeus
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- +30 210 41 23 977｜+44 207 43 99 777
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Sylvia Kouvali (anteriorment Rodeo) va obrir el 2007 a Istanbul. A més de mirar cap a la regió local de la galeria, el programa sempre ha tingut un enfocament internacional, mostrant artistes contemporanis de tot el món amb un focus en les qualitats de les obres més que en les geographies. L’objectiu principal de la galeria és expandir el diàleg entre col·leccionistes, museus i comissaris cap a una comprensió internacional de l’art contemporani. Des de la seva obertura, la galeria s’ha centrat a treballar estretament amb institucions i biennals al costat dels artistes per produir i presentar noves obres innovadores. A l’octubre de 2014, va obrir el seu segon espai a Londres, expandint i ampliant aquest focus amb una presència significativa dels artistes de la galeria en grans exposicions arreu del món. Al juny de 2018, va obrir un nou espai a Pireu, Grècia: un lloc per presentar artistes que formen part de la programació i per convidar noves posicions, tant històriques com més joves.