Mary Kelly | Whitney Biennial 2024

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Mary Kelly premieres a new, multi-paneled work entitled Lacunae (2023) in the 2024 Whitney Biennial, Even Better Than the Real Thing, curated by Chrissie Iles, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator, and Meg Onli, Curator at Large, with Min Sun Jeon and Beatriz Cifuentes.

 

Opening March 20, 2024, the Whitney Biennial features 71 artists and collectives and explores the fluidity of identity and form, historic and current land stewardship, and concepts of embodiment. The artists and collectives in the latest chapter of the exhibition—Even Better Than the Real Thing—will interpret our current landscape and tell stories, spark discussion and comment on issues across a variety of media and disciplines. 

 

In a series of intimate collages, Kelly has combined her personal calendars with drawings in ash on vellum. Her age juxtaposed with those of deceased friends suggests an imaginary countdown, replayed as the gaps accumulate and the activity of real-time fades. The work evokes an incremental sense of loss that shapes the subjectivity of late life, but is often unacknowledged, or naturalized as the “normal course of things.” 

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The 2024 Whitney Biennial is organized by Chrissie Iles, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator and Meg Onli, Curator at Large, with Min Sun Jeon and Beatriz Cifuentes. The performance program is organized by Iles and Onli, with guest curator Taja Cheek. The film program is organized by Iles and Onli, with guest curators Korakrit Arunanondchai, asinnajaq, Greg de Cuir Jr, and Zackary Drucker.

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