Leslie Thornton, Peggy & Fred in Hell: Folding, 1983–2015. 16mm film and video transferred to HD video, black and white, color, sound, 95 min. Installation view: Leslie Thornton: Begin Again, Again at MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, 2021. Photo by Julia Featheringill.
Exhibition Highlights
Student Lending Art Program Exhibition and Lottery
August 27–September 5, 2021
List Projects 23: Andrew Norman Wilson
October 22, 2021–February 13, 2022
“Drawing techniques from documentary, montage, animation, and big-budget Hollywood, the works [in List Projects 23: Andrew Norman Wilson] operate in a cinematic idiom that in length and sensory overload feel vaguely hostile to the traditional gallery setting, but their understated criticality profits from the framing the venue provides.” —Jared Quinton for Art Agenda Reviews
Leslie Thornton: Begin Again, Again
October 22, 2021–February 13, 2022
“This solo exhibition traces Leslie Thornoton’s work from some of her earliest pieces in the mid 1970’s up until the present day. One of the defining features of Leslie’s work is her use of montage and her way of treating some of her own footage as though it were found footage and the effect is one that is often characterized as alienation.”
—Curator Natalie Bell
Sreshta Rit Premnath: Grave/Grove
October 22, 2021–February 13, 2022
“We immigrants often inhabit the periphery of society and are unable to actively participate in the political process, yet we make lives and livelihoods in these margins, and from that vantage reimagine what our newly adopted home can be. Grave/Grove is a way of thinking these two ideas—social death and political possibility—together."
—Sreshta Rit Premnath as told to Murtaza Vali in Artforum
List Projects 24: Sharona Franklin
March 25–June 5, 2022
“This poetic, powerful gesture, like the exhibition as a whole, considers the paradoxical cycles of harm and healing that institutions proffer, pondering the principles of so-called advancement." —Leah Triplett Harrington for Hyperallergic
Matthew Angelo Harrison: Robota
March 25–July 24, 2022
“Harrison’s material response, unmistakably deadening, is elegant critique, beating [Constantin] Brancusi at his own chilly formalist game. Not content to let it lie, the artist has carved into the block with a mechanical router, gouging so deep in spots as to expose raw wood. I wondered if this was gilding the lily. The gesture cranks somber, implicit disdain—at colonial violence, and the blithe display of its plunder—into explicit rage.” —Murray Whyte for the Boston Globe
Raymond Boisjoly: The Explanatory Void
March 25–July 24, 2022
“My interest in text really came from trying to figure out ways in which works could somehow articulate their own premises so wanting works that somehow spoke to their reason for being. I wanted something that was deliberately convoluted and oblique and sort of confusing.” —Raymond Boisjoly
