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Silo presents an exhibition of new works by artist Douglas Boatwright. An untitled video work by Douglas Boatwright arose from a consideration of the idea of role models that simultaneously examines his peer's romantic attraction to '60s revolutionary images and disenchantment with the co-option and dilution of such images by popular media sources. He became intrigued by the life of Fred Hampton, who at age fourteen began work as a political activist before meeting premature death as a Black Panther. Boatwright videotaped an actor in the process of memorizing the performance of one of Hampton's protest speeches, and then dubbed his own voice over it. The idea is straightforward: What happens when one emulates another person and attempts to reenact another's life? Boatwright's results address the notion that we all "perform identity" by the process of internalization and re-performance. During this exhibition, he will also begin a new work titled All My Loving, taken from the Beatles’ song title, where requests are solicited from viewers for him to perform and record their favorite love songs to be sent to other individuals as anonymous "video telegrams." Both projects construct several degrees of separation between source and context, impulse and outcome, and situations fraught with emotion and meaning and ones devoid of them.
For more information, please contact Tia Shin at info@silonyc.com or (212) 505-9156.
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