graz | grazer kunstverein | lisa oppenheim | opening today | 15/3/2014 > 18/5/2014 Over the past decade, artist Lisa Oppenheim (b. 1975, US) has steadily developed a unique body of work exploring the usage of (historical) imagery. Balanced between appropriation and reconstruction, her work relies on substitutions applied to photographic and filmic records through which the historical and the present are transmitted and constituted through a language of today. One could define her work as an archaeology of time and visual culture. By exposing or even re-exposing archival material, Oppenheim bridges the past and the present by introducing new meaning to these historical images, often resulting in film and photographic projects. From Abigail to Jacob (Works 2004–2014) is Lisa Oppenheims first larger institutional show that spans over a decade of production, ranging from earlier prints and slide works to more recent photograms and films. The exhibition is developed in collaboration with Kunstverein in Hamburg and FRAC Champagne-Ardenne and includes the artists first monographic publication, published by Sternberg Press. The Members Library* presents: Cathay by Lisa Oppenheim For her film installation, Cathay (2010), Lisa Oppenheim found a fragment of a poem that Pound constructed from the notes of Ernest Fenollosa, an American scholar living in Japan, presumably from his translations of the 8th-century Chinese poet Li Bai. Neither Pound nor Fenollosa had any real knowledge of Chinese. Fenollosa produced this and other fragmentary translations that Pound would later turn into the extremely influential collection of poems titled Cathay, an antiquated name for China. Oppenheim then sent the original untranslated version of the poem to an East Asian Languages and Literature professor and received what is, unsurprisingly, a very different version. The film slowly shifts from Pounds translation to a more correct or perhaps literal translation. The movement takes place through the substitution of words with corresponding scenes or objects found and filmed within the visual space of New York Citys Chinatown. Grazer Kunstverein Burgergasse 4/II 8010 Graz Austria web grazerkunstverein.org/program.html map https://google/maps/place/Grazer+Kunstverein/@47.0712017,15.443236,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x476e3581d9a189ad:0x6058a0271ce65f7f
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 10:48:07 +0000
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