VALIE EXPORT, Einkreisung, 1976. Black and white silver gelatin print on baryta paper laid on chip board, 79 x 130 x 1,7 cm. Collection Thaddaeus Ropac, © VALIE EXPORT / Bildrecht Wien, 2024
Celebrate the opening of VALIE EXPORT: Embodied at the Schindler House. VALIE EXPORT’s work has redefined the fields of conceptual art, performance, and expanded cinema. Since the 1960s, her early projects have blurred the boundaries between photography and documentation, performance and action, often by utilizing the female body as prop and provocation to classical regimes of architecture. The ‘photo-graphic’ series, Body Configurations (1972-1976) captures direct interventions through bodily insertions into public space.
VALIE EXPORT: Embodied presents select works from this seminal series, reflecting her early investigations into the politics of space, image-making, and the body as both an ideological and technological device. Accompanying the photographic series in the exhibition are two video works by VALIE EXPORT, Adjunct Dislocations (1973) and Syntagma (1984), which present the artist’s filmic inquiries into the real and the representational.
Opening Reception of VALIE EXPORT: Embodied, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, February 28, 2024. Photographs by Monica Nouwens/MAK Center for Art and Architecture
VALIE EXPORT: embodied
February 28, 2024 — April 7, 2024
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VALIE EXPORT: Embodied is organized by MAK Center Director Jia Yi Gu with Seymour Polatin, Exhibitions and Programs Manager, Brian Taylor, Curatorial Assistant, and Maeve Atkinson, Education and Engagement Coordinator.
The performance series In Their Own Image is curated by Chloë Flores and features new work by performing artists Zackary Drucker, Sierra Fujita, Emily Lucid, Lara Salmon, Andrea Soto, and Dorian Wood.
The exhibition is made possible with support from Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, Betsy Greenberg, the Austrian Consulate General Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Arts and Culture Department, and MAK Center’s Centennial Council.
Thank you to our beverage sponsors Lorenza Wine and Topo Chico.
