Leslie Hewitt — Collective Stance
SculptureCenter, NY
Leslie Hewitt in collaboration with Bradford Young, Untitled (Structures), 2012, installation view, Collective Stance, SculptureCenter, 2016. Dual-channel video projection.
35 mm film transferred to HD video. 16:47 minutes, looped. Produced by Karin Chien. Commissioned by the Menil Collection, Houston, with the support of Jerean and Holland Chaney, in collaboration with the Des Moines Art Center and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Additional funding provided by Joseph Chung, Marilyn and Larry Fields, and Elliot Perry. Material and structural support provided by Kodak, Panavision, Harbor Picture Company, and Lucien Terras Inc. Courtesy the artists and Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York. Photo: Kyle Knodell
Shown at SculptureCenter, Collective Stance continues Leslie Hewitt’s dialogue between image, object, and architecture. Her hybrid compositions of wooden frames and archival photographs invite viewers to consider how collective memory is built—through what we choose to see and what we withhold.
