Some striking images amidst this exhibition of video pieces made by Parreno - we came in partway through Marilyn (set in a set of a Waldorf Astoria hotel room), then 1968, a recreation of the train journey that took Robert Kennedy's body from New York to Washington (its still-posed passers-by made me think of Gregory Crewdson), Invisibleboy (the most engaging of the ones we saw, with its gradually emergent monsters), its sequel, the moody Li Yan (night-time, a woman) and then the beginnings of another. The order of the videos is up to the 'gallery technician', as a gesture towards making the exhibition more participatory and recognising that it has meaning only through being viewed by the audience; possibly, that also explains the mildly helium-ed fish-shaped balloons there for the playing with in the darkened space.
(w/ Meribah)
(w/ Meribah)
