Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 21, 6-8PM
Artist Talk: Tuesday, January 27, 6PM
MFA Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts presents It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards, an exhibition of work by multimedia artist Johan Grimonprez (MFA 1992 Fine Arts), an SVA alumnus and faculty member. Curated by faculty member Gianni Jetzer, the exhibition brings together four works: Looking for Alfred (2005), an homage to Hitchcock’s cameo appearances in his films, with a cast of look-alikes; Hitchcock didn’t have a Belly Button: Interview with Karen Black (2010), a recorded interview of the actress recounting her experiences with the legendary filmmaker; You Tube Me and I Tube You, a two-channel interaction installation and web project initiated in 2010; and I may have forever lost my umbrella (2011), a color short with a narration based on Fernando Pessoa’s Book of Disquiet underneath the images of YouTube videos of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, which is shown in New York for the first time in this exhibition. For more information, please visit sva.edu.