Exhibitions

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  • Liz Knox | playback
    Friday, January 20, 2012 (All day) - Saturday, February 4, 2012 (All day)

    Liz Knox’s work is inspired by early conceptualism, examining systems of interpretation with an emphasis on strategies of irony. The main body of work being shown in ie, gallery is Found Synopses. The series offers portraits of films, each displayed as a poster, developed from the user-generated parental advisory of imdb.com. The results are ambiguous articulations of anonymous actions, seemingly unrelated, in strings that form the distillation of filmic narratives and imagery. A number of the films used are films that other artists have addressed in previous works, infusing the series with ideas of the reference, and the numerous ways films linger in memory and culture.

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