Liliana Porter: The Gardener and Other Situations

This event recurs on Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday from January 24, 2024 – February 25, 2024
“Everybody has their own plots,” said Liliana Porter, “but when you tease them out of their circumstances, they create something that is different from what happens when you had a script.” A single point in a plot undergirds each of Porter’s works on view. The titles—among them, Forced Labor (Blue Sand) (2008), The Way Out (with Red Car) (2022), and The Gardener (2012)—each offer a glint of a character or circumstance, and all provoke a contest between a single life and wider conditions of precarity. These shards of stories and their surrounding emptiness, emphasized by the works’ lack of edges, leave the script unfinished and ask the viewer to speculate on whether the scenes depict disaster, recovery, drudgery, or joy. Such irresolvable tensions—essential to Porter’s work—are rendered with characteristic humor and depth.

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