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Adam Pendleton, still from Just back from Los Angeles: A Portrait of Yvonne Rainer, 2016–2017, Single-channel black-and-white video, length: 13:51 min. Courtesy the artist
Screening
WEEKEND #4: Adam Pendleton
24 Feb 2017
Regular hours
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Address
- 30 Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße
- Berlin
Berlin - 10178
- Germany
Adam Pendleton is a conceptual artist whose work moves fluidly between painting, publishing, photographic collage, video, and performance. As part of The Weekends, Pendleton will present a series of filmic portraits during the event.
About
Lorraine O’Grady: A Portrait (2012), inspired by Gertrude Stein’s textual portraits, presents a chronology of O’Grady’s work as a conceptual artist in New York since the 1970s and the artist reflecting on her familial relationships.
Satomi (2009) is a silent six-and-a-half second looped video of the lead singer of the American indie rock band Deerhoof, Satomi Matsuzaki, working on a new song in a recording studio. Satomi stages Pendleton’s formal commitment to repetition and narrative abstraction.
Just back from Los Angeles: A Portrait of Yvonne Rainer (2016–2017) is Pendleton’s most recent portrait. The video poetically captures the choreographer, filmmaker, and writer Yvonne Rainer in conversation with Pendleton at a diner in NYC’s Chelsea neighborhood.
All portraits are held together by their (re-)presentation of the impossibility of summarizing who someone is; how any kind of representation is ultimately a conversation with some form of abstraction.
