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PABLO PICASSO
femme allongee
estate lithograph
5-B $4300
Courtesy of
PLAXALL
LONG ISLAND CITY
SEPTEMBER 2017
The Sculpture Center
Museum of the Moving Image
MOMA PSI
INSTALLATION
DOLLS VS. DICTATORS
Through September 24
Video Screening Amphitheater
22-25 Jackson Ave • LIC
718.784.2084 • MoMAPS1.org
35 Ave at 37 St • Astoria
718.777.6800 • www.movingimage.us
44-19 Purves Street · LIC
718.361.1750 • www.sculpture-center.org
2011. Martha Colburn (b. 1972, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Lives and works
in Long Island City and Amsterdam). Animated lm. 11 minutes.
Martha Colburn is a lmmaker, animator, and multimedia artist who
employs a variety of techniques, including puppetry, collage, and
paint-on-glass. Many of her works address American history and its
relationship to contemporary foreign and domestic policy. Colburn has also
directed numerous music videos and has taught workshops on her
animation techniques throughout the world.
For the Museum, Colburn made a lm in 2011 based on her photographs of
the Museum’s extensive collection of dolls, toys, and other licensed
merchandise. According to the artist, the lm “brings together science
ction landscapes, current political gures, and the Museum of Moving
Image's doll collection from the last 100 years of American lm and
television history. These dolls use their 'powers' to eradicate the universe of
living dictators.”
In the 1960s, Nicola L. worked as an artist between Ibiza and Paris,
connecting with other key gures exploring Pop, including Yves
Klein, Marta Minujín, and Alberto Greco. In the late 1970s, she moved
to New York City, where she currently resides in the Chelsea Hotel.
Nicola L.'s work takes up notions of skin and surface, often breaking
apart representations of the body and turning them into
furniture-like objects and vice versa. Dressers, lamps, sofas, and
other items resembling human forms comprise her functional
objects. This body of work appears as a cast of characters; physically
confronting their human counterparts as they open and close, turn
o and on, and store personal items. Her series of Penetrable works,
initially conceived to be entered or worn by viewers and/or
performers, extends the body's exterior, skin, into vinyl and textile
casings that enclose single or multiple bodies within another layer of
material. An emphasis on supercial coverings and caricaturized
anthropomorphic objects ties into Nicola L.'s longstanding interests
in feminism and in interrogating constructions of subjectivity.
MoMA PS1 presents Ian Cheng’s (b. 1984) rst US museum solo
presentation, featuring the artist’s complete Emissary trilogy
(2015–17), a series of live simulation works created using a video
game engine. Described by the artist as “a video game that plays
itself,” the works are comprised of computer-generated simulations
like those used in predictive technologies for complex scenarios such
as climate change or elections. Populated by a cast of characters and
wildlife that interact, intervene, and recombine in open-ended
narratives, Cheng’s simulations evolve endlessly as self-contained
ecosystems.
EXHIBITION
September 18 - December 18, 2017
Nicola L.: Works, 1968 to the Present
Ian Cheng: Emissaries
Through September 24
