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BALTIMORE, MD (March 13, 2018) — In collaboration with the Johns Hopkins University's Eye for Advanced Media Studies, The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) presents Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley: We Are Ghosts on view Apr 4 through Baronial 19, 2018 in the Contemporary Wing. The exhibition presents two dramatically stylized films that artfully resurrect history and poetry. For This Is Offal (2016), which won the Baloise Prize at Art Basel, and their nigh recent film, In The Body of The Sturgeon (2017), they reanimate the expressionless, empowering a drowned woman to tell the story of her suicide, and envision the final moments of an American submarine crew. These unorthodox ghost stories are told in conscientious meter and rhyme with wild wordplay and wickedly funny twists throughout the films' scripts. More broadly, the artists' choice to focus on subjects who represent life experiences not recorded in item by official history (an unnamed, "boilerplate" woman and enlisted Navy men) is an human activity of reclaiming otherwise lost souls. Almost life-size lightbox portraits of the picture show'southward characters are also presented in the exhibition.
"The subjects of these 2 films parallel one some other as embodiments of femininity and masculinity nether the stresses generated by their own imperfect natures and confrontations with expiry, equally well as the eras they inhabit," said Kristen Hileman, Senior Curator of Gimmicky Art. "Despite their anachronistic forms of oral communication and odd, blank-eyed appearances, these figures correspond us—or any person, at any time, who has struggled with her or his sense of identity and place in posterity—and lead u.s.a. to the sensation, expressed in the show'southward championship, that inevitably 'nosotros are ghosts.'"
The division of labor in producing these films is divided between MacArthur Award–winner Mary Reid Kelley (American, b. 1979) and her artistic collaborator and life partner Patrick Kelley (American, b. 1969). In addition to creating the brilliant exact contortions of the scripts, Mary directs and performs most of the roles in makeup and costumes of her own design. Patrick, who as well appears in the two works, produces the digital effects and editing that result in the seamless only strange cinematic universes that underscore the characters' plights. Harkening back to the early years of movies, particularly the dreamlike sets of German Expressionist film, the black-and-white mises-en-scene denote to viewers that they have entered another reality in which contemporary critical thinking infuses cornball fantasy with the power to bring greater dash and empathy to attempts to imagine the people who lived earlier us.
For This Is Offal (pun emphatically intended), British poet Thomas Hood's The Bridge of Sighs (1844) is the jumping-off indicate. Hood approached the poem'due south fictional suicide with a distinctive understanding of the socioeconomic weather of London that might have prompted such a fatal jump into the Thames. Mary and Patrick take Hood's grittier impulses several steps further by empowering their deceased woman and her various dissected body parts with speech. The organs and extremities brandish their own contained-minded personalities, as they bicker over which initiated the suicide and whether any volition accomplish eternal recognition equally a scientific specimen or medical transplant. A ghostly body joins the fray, providing clues that in life the woman may well have struggled with her sense of vanity. While the true cause of the woman's autumn is ultimately withheld, the work concludes with a realization that in death, her physical body has become simply "offal."
The artists' nimble wordplay is also evident in In The Torso of The Sturgeon, which is making its U.S. debut at the BMA and was co-sponsored by the BMA, the Center for Advanced Media Studies, and Tate Liverpool. Although Mary sets the script during the closing days of the Second World War, she turns to American Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's much-parodied 1855 poem The Vocal of Hiawatha for its language and structure. She composes a cento (a poem made up entirely of words and lines quoted from an existing poem) that transforms mushrooms from Longfellow's vision of pre-colonial America into atomic clouds over Japan.
Patrick's disjointed editing reinforces the fragmentation inherent in Mary's script, presenting staccato sequences of shots that evoke the radio static that would interrupt the communications of a sinking submarine. (The set for this pic is inspired by the USS Torsk docked at the Inner Harbor.) Merely as Longfellow attempted to conjure a subject field—the oral traditions of Native Americans before European contact—that was unknowable from his position in history, Mary and Patrick imagine the impossible-to-observe state of affairs of men locked in a metal container, dying at the bottom of the bounding main. However, unlike their predecessor, they are fully aware of what they do not and cannot know, reconstructing their grim scenario to sympathise history every bit a tool to probe man grapheme, rather than a stock-still truth or a status quo–affirming ideal.
Mark Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley: We Are Ghosts is the latest in a series of projects in partnership with the Eye for Advanced Media Studies at the Johns Hopkins University. This exhibition is co-curated by Senior Curator of Contemporary Fine art Kristen Hileman in collaboration with the JHU Middle for Advanced Media Studies and by Lauren Barnes, formerly an Assistant Curator at the Tate Liverpool and now Curator at The Hepworth Wakefield. We Are Ghosts was presented at the Tate Liverpool from November 17, 2017 to March eighteen, 2018. The BMA and Tate Liverpool have co-published a catalogue including the films' scripts and essays by both curators to back-trail the exhibition.
Artist TALK
On Midweek, April 4 at 6 p.m. Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley will join Senior Curator of Contemporary Art Kristen Hileman for an in-depth conversation near how the artists comprise verse, painting, and digital editing into their fiercely compelling videos. The event will take place in the BMA's Meyerhoff Auditorium.
MARY REID KELLEY
Mary Reid Kelley (American, b. 1979) earned a BA from St. Olaf College and an MFA from Yale Academy. The artist is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Grant, has received awards from the American Academy in Rome, the Rema Hort Mann Foundation, and the College Art Clan. Major exhibitions include Table salt Lake Fine art Centre, SITE Santa Fe, Institute of Contemporary Fine art in Boston, and ZKM Museum of Contemporary Fine art in Karlsruhe, Germany.
PATRICK KELLEY
Patrick Kelley (American, b. 1969) earned a BFA from St. Olaf College and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. The artist has taught Photography, Video, and New Media courses at the University of Minnesota, St. Olaf College, St. Mary's College of Maryland, and Skidmore College in New York. His works have shown at the Bibliothèque Publique d'Information-Center Pompidou, Paris, French republic, the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany, and the Minnesota Museum of
American Art.
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