25. Keren Cytter + Cytter/Roebas
Sex is not an option
Syndicate at Beverly's
New York City US
12 September - 14 November
Images / Text
Beverly's
21 Essex Street
New York 10002
http://beverlys.nyc
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Featuring commissioned texts by Tiago de Abreu Pinto and JL Murtaugh
Opening night
Thursday 12 September, 9:00 PM
with DJ Sanna Almajedi
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We're in a gateway to elsewhere.
Trivial moments happen in places exactly like this – crucially benign stories which conclude or spark the consequential ones. While bars aren't the principal point of reference when defining society, they are stubbornly fleshly and byzantine while the balance of life dematerializes. Streams of bodies continually depart and arrive at this time-arrested refuge, summoned from anonymity by a rosy beacon.
'Sex is not an option' is a loose frame for communal occurrences featuring works by the artist Keren Cytter and her collaborations with artist John Roebas. Cytter's emotionally charged films Der Spiegel (2007) and Object (2016) plus the lighting fixtures by Cytter/Roebas subtly background the independent occurrence of daily events at Beverly's; a continual stage where characters meet, argue, flirt, and deal.
Keren Cytter (*1977 Tel Aviv IL) is an artist representing social realities through experimental methods of storytelling. Cytter's solo projects this past year include 'Size Matters', Hamlet (Zurich CH), 'Sponsored content', Center for Contemporary Art (Tel Aviv IL), and 'Mature content', Museion (Bolzano IT). She has exhibited at institutions worldwide including the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago US), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen DK), Tate Modern (London UK), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam NL), Hammer Museum (Los Angeles US), Moderna Museet (Stockholm SE), and MUMOK (Vienna AT); additionally participating in Momentum Biennial 2019 (Oslo NO), 2016 Busan Biennial, 2014 Liverpool Biennial, 2009 Venice Biennial, and Manifesta 7 (Trentino IT). She lives in New York US.
Cytter / Roebas is a collaborative project by Keren Cytter and John Roebas (*1985 Tegucigalpa HN, lives in New York US).