Squirm

Program, P.1977
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Identifier
P.1977
Type
Group exhibitions
Category
Visual Arts
Date
October 5 – 6, 2007
Description
Squirm, provoking video screenings from two engaging international artists. Visual artists Larissa Fassler and Bettina Hoffmann create fictionalized social conditions, which they then pho- tograph and / or videotape. The resulting work opens disconcerting insight into the habits of interaction among friends, families and communities. Larissa Fassler will present photographs and video work from her three-part series Teen Couples I (2003), Teen Couples II (2005) and Teen Couples III (2007). In 2003, Fassler asked a group of 14-year olds to pose as they believed “a couple looks.” She videotaped them when they were 16 and then again this past summer. Her proj- ect, which masquerades as documentary, brings into sharp focus the self-consciousness of teenagers as they negotiate adult roles.