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Indepth Arts News:
"Dara Friedman: Film and Video Projects"
2001-02-10 until 2001-05-27
SITE Santa Fe
Santa Fe, NM,
USA United States of America
SITE Santa Fe will present three of Dara Friedman's
film/video projects. Proposed to be shown at SITE Santa Fe
are Government Cut Freestyle, 1998 and Chrissy, Mette,
Kristan, 2000. SITE Santa Fe also plans to show a piece
that Ms. Friedman has made during a recent residency at the
American Academy in Rome, Italy. Influenced by the structuralist film tradition, Dara Friedman's
work utilizes repetitive and sometimes synchronized
sequences of motion and sound. Friedman says, There are
a number of things that interest me about sound and its
dynamic with images. Sometimes I think you can tell more
about a person by hearing them speak than by seeing a
photograph (film) of them – there is less that gets lost in
translation. Repetition is also about making something
important (you really mean it, and if you didn't catch if the first
time, you have another chance) or unimportant (the quality of
what is said disappears into the quantity).
Miami, Florida-based artist Dara Friedman was born in
Germany where she studied with the pioneering
experimental Austrian filmmaker Peter Kubelka. She received
an MFA from the University of Miami, School of Motion
Pictures, Miami, Florida and has attended The Slade School
of Fine Art, University College, London, U.K.; Stadelschule,
Frankfurt am Main, Germany; and Vassar College,
Poughkeepsie, New York. Dara Friedman has participated in
group exhibitions such as the 2000 Whitney Biennial, The
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Heads Up,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida; and Leftover
Festivities, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India. She has had
numerous solo exhibitions including Gavin Brown's
enterprise, New York, New York; Museum of Contemporary
Art, Chicago, IL; and she is stupid I am worried, Frederic
Snitzer Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida (with Mark Handforth).
IMAGE:
Dara Friedman
Government Cut Freestyle, 1998
16 mm film transferred to DVD
dimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist and
Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York
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