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Abbey Williams: New Videos

September 8, 2007 - October 8, 2007

Abbey Williams

Bellwether

134 10th Ave
In Bellwether’s Project Room ABBEY WILLIAMS will be exhibiting two new videos, Mum (2007) and La Mulatto (2007), which take on questions of responsibility, identity, history, and representation. In the two-channel piece Mum, Williams borrows the subtext of surrender and desire from 1950’s mummy movies. With frenetic editing and staccato sound she weaves these altered and reconstructed images (along with her own footage) to create an abstract narrative of sexual anxiety. La Mulatto conflates an image of a 19th century terra-cotta bust with the artist’s self-portrait, employing a post-black sense of multi-racial identity while examining the ever present question of cultural identification, beauty, amidst an image which literally intertwines past with present. Both works address comparison as a form of critique; differing historical representations of women are juxtaposed with images of the artist to demonstrate the implied imperatives of corporeal life: there can be no transcendence of sex, no rationalist utopia oblivious to the body.

Books and DVDs related to artists in this show

Location   Gallery Bellwether Address 134 10th Ave New York (Chelsea) NY, 10011 United States Phone 212-929-5959 Hours Tue-Sat 11-6

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