Everything
Begins and Ends at Exactly the Right Time and Place, 2007,
engages representation and doubling in yet another way. Inspired
by the 1975 cult classic, Picnic at
Hanging Rock, Lichtenstein
(who shares her first name with the central character in
the film) stages her own disappearance from a wooded, rocky
landscape. The unsettling events depicted in the video are
enhanced by its soundtrack, which features a clip from the
original movie. Halfway through the video the action repeats,
looping twice while the soundtrack from the movie is uninterrupted.
Perception of the depicted events thus shifts between what
is observed and what is remembered, a state of flux that
persists in all of Lichtenstein’s work.
Miranda Lichtenstein has had solo exhibitions at The Hammer
Museum, Los Angeles, The Whitney Museum of American Art at
Phillip Morris, New York, and Gallery Min Min, Tokyo. Her
work has been featured in shows at the Renaissance Society,
Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Creative
Time, New York, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
and Stadthaus, Ulm. Her work is in the permanent collection
of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, The Hirshhorn
Museum, Washington DC, and the New Museum, New York.
For
more information please contact the gallery at +1.212.924.7545.
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