exhibitions
Jennifer Steinkamp: The Technologies of Nature December 18, 2021 – August 21, 2022
In “Mike Kelley,” Jennifer Steinkamp masterfully uses digital animation to examine the boundaries between reality and illusion, nature and technology, and the natural and manmade.
The repeated unfolding of the seasons in Steinkamp’s windblown tree points the relentless march of time, and the reference in the title to one of Steinkamp’s important teachers alludes to the passing of generational time and knowledge. Yet, its cyclical format also disrupts our linear ideas about history, asserting the resilience of natural forms whose lifecycles cannot — or, perhaps more urgently, should not — be halted.
Curator: Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, curator of American art
Jennifer Steinkamp (American, b. 1958), “Mike Kelley,” 2007. Video, dimensions variable; duration: 8-minute loop. North Carolina Museum of Art. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London.
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