Sarah Gregg Millman explores themes of representation and class division in a series of video works titled Truth Stories. In a field of blue, four brunettes tell stories of frustration and disconnection tied to their working lives. Against coral, in whispers, four blondes imagine life inside an Impressionist masterwork such as Seurat’s La Grande Jatte. Seemingly spontaneous, the narratives are scripts by Millman based on her own life. Her subjects, lovely and interchangeable, speak in monotones; unthreatening, but for the occasional bigoted or offensive remark.

Millman is influenced by the plays of Pirandello and Brecht, which explore the illusory nature of reality and encourage the audience to maintain critical detachment. Another source is New Wave cinema, in which women are often used as empty vessels for the director's political ideals. In a solo piece titled The Headliner, a female reporter lip-syncs Marlene Dietrich's famous rendition of the protest anthem, "Where Have all the Flowers Gone?”, to the sound of falling bombs. Here Millman addresses not only the role of women in war, but the responsibility of the media during conflict and the increasing use of nostalgia in journalism.

Warren Corbitt's project Folly encourages viewers to enter a starkly minimal installation consisting of a raised platform with table and two chairs. The unpainted plywood sculpture implies a living space, with a suspended window on one side and a half-framed doorway on the other. The scene unfolds as if a rehearsal, but it is a non-event. The reductive set with anonymous female presence opposes subjectivity and objectivity, interior and exterior, exploring the dramatic use of public and private space. Corbitt's understated approach draws from minimalist art and modern theater's abilities to heighten perceptions and reflexively engage the viewer.

Millman and Corbitt come together at Silo in their individual approaches to the use of avant garde performative strategies to isolate and examine personal sensibility and emphasize the mutable experience of identity from both inside and out.

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