Participating Artists
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Heart Breaker, 2004 (video still), single-screen video on monitor, 16:24 minutes, sound, courtesy of the artist
Kate Gilmore
In three video works exhibited in different locations in the Museum, Kate Gilmore translates figures of speech into visual puns. In the work My Love is an Anchor, which is projected here, the artist is portrayed with one of her legs immobilized in a bucket of plaster. Stubborn and determined, she tries in vain to extricate herself from the plaster trap. The Sisyphean effort, the pain, the frustration and the sense of defeat partake of the evident deterioration in the figure's psychological state. In her work Heartbreaker, which is displayed on an adjacent monitor, Gilmore uses a hatchet to stage a bloody attack on a series of wooden planks arranged on a wall in a heart shape. In the work With Open Arms, in the Museum's entrance lobby, the artist spreads her arms outwards in the dramatic gesture of a welcoming hostess, and shows restraint time after time as she is bombarded with tomatoes. With a touching sense of humor, Gilmore relates to the struggles, dramas and traumas of everyday life: in a refreshingly masochistic manner, she endangers herself and endures the pain and rituals of humiliation.
Kate Gilmore was born in Washington, D.C., 1975. She recently participated in the "Greater New York 2005" exhibition at PS1/MoMA in New York. She lives and works in New York.
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