Mary Kelly
Four Works in Dialogue 1973-2010
Moderna Museet
Skeppsholmen
Stockholm, Sweden
www.modernamuseet.se
Iaspis, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee
Maria skolgata 83, 2nd floor
Stockholm, Sweden
www.iaspis.se
Stockholm 16 October 2010 – 23 January 2011
Curator: Cecilia Widenheim
Four Works in Dialogue comprises Post-Partum Document (1973-79), The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi (2001), Multi-Story House (2007) and the new piece Habitus (2010). Part V of Mary Kelly’s groundbreaking work Post-Partum Document was acquired for the Moderna Museet collection in the course of the project “The Second Museum of Our Wishes” and in this exhibition, the complete work is being presented in Sweden for the first time.
By showing Mary Kelly’s major projects from the 1970s together with works from the past decade, the exhibition seeks to engage us in a visual dialogue across generations that have been shaped by different cultural circumstances, but subject to the same historical events. The works in the exhibition capture the diverse voices that form our archive of collective memories, reflecting on the way past hopes and disappointments reappear in the present, and alluding to the formative role of the mother-child relationship in that process.
The new work, Habitus, was created by Mary Kelly in collaboration with Ray Barrie for the exhibition at Moderna Museet. The structure’s shape and size are based on the Anderson Shelter, which was mass produced for home use in Britain during the Second World War. In Habitus the corrugated iron is replaced with panels of laser-cut text that become legible when they are reflected in the mirrored floor. Mary Kelly’s short, quirky narratives recount the memories of a generation born during or after the war.
In addition to the four major projects Moderna Museet will also be showing the photo series Primapara (1974) and the influential film Nightcleaners (1972–75) by The Berwick Street Film Collective.
For further information please contact Press Assistant Gabriel Gunnarsson g.gunnarsson@modernamuseet.se T +46 8 5195 5281
The Dialogic Imagination – a workshop convened by Mary Kelly in collaboration with Dont Rhine, Andrea Geyer, Sharon Hayes and Jane Jin Kaisen
Saturday 30 October, 2010
Iaspis, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Stockholm
The Dialogic Imagination discusses the voice in relation to narrative and performativity as well as a means of witnessing in contemporary art. The workshop will be held at Iaspis in Stockholm where Mary Kelly is resident artist during the fall of 2010. The program will include an interactive lecture by Dont Rhine, Instructions for Listening; screenings from Andrea Geyer’s six-channel video installation, Criminal Case 40/61: Reverb (2009); a new work by Sharon Hayes, An Ear to the Sounds of Our History: A Reading; and a feature film by Jane Jin Kaisen: The Women, the Orphan, and the Tiger (2010).
For further information and a detailed program please contact Project Coordinator Suzi Ersahin se@iaspis.se T +46 8 50 65 50 78
