CUT

THIERRY GOLDBERG PROJECTS is pleased to present Cut, a group show of video, collage, and installation, with works by Keren Cytter, Jonathan Hartshorn, Anna Parkina, and Meredyth Sparks. Cut offers a look into the mobility of significance, meaning, and self-definition through popular culture. Cut and the various meanings of the word serve as the common denominator for the show – the threshold between reality and fiction in the language of cinema; the essence of collage in the language of art, and the harbinger of pain in the language of the body. Keren Cytter’s Repulsion, a multi-channel video inspired by Roman Polanski’s first English film of the same title conveys a mood of suspense through three varied scenarios. As a triptych running in tandem, Cytter references Doug Aitken’s investigations into fragmented and simultaneous narration with a touch of ‘Hitchcock Presents'. Surrounded and disoriented by video, the viewer is held captive. The perceptual task at hand, then, is that of locating the self-immersed in a remake of sorts. Appropriated, fragmented, and relational, Cytter addresses narrative structure and meaning through a collage-like mobility. Jonathan Hartshorn maps out a tangle of desultory associations with drawings, photos, and objects (found and of his own creation). His wall installations are mini-exhibitions, seemingly biographical, which in their intricacy create an introverted tautology. All in all, his work points to a world of relational meaning, collaged, mobile, re-contextualized with each component gaining significance in proximity to other works. In a series of collages cum self-portraits cum performance art, Anna Parkina investigates the Self in relation to the culture of spectacle. Her aesthetic embodies Soviet design, 80’s computer graphics, and screen-printing, which together provide an ironic anachronism relevant in a common desire to create ulterior social orders. Meredyth Sparks’ collages allude to the geometry of Kasimir