Purple Diary
[July 25 2011]
RYAN TRECARTIN’S FILM INSTALLATION PREMIERES at the moma ps1, new york
Ryan Trecartin’s first major solo museum exhibition in New York at
MoMA’s PS1 is a multi-room video installation bringing together a body
of work produced between 2007 and 2010. Tracartin’s video-based
projects are frenetically paced and his narrative explores consumer
culture and art world dichotomies through a social media lens. Created
in the post millennium internet generation, Trecartin’s work resonates
with his peer group much in the same way Alex Bag captured the Nineties
materialism and stereotypes. Tracartin’s commentary can be heavy
handed in terms of the installation. Visitors who want to listen to
the audio accompanying each video must sit in expensive office chairs,
airplane seats or stadium bleachers. The implications of our
consumerism is forced upon us visually and physically.
Any Ever by Ryan Trecartin is on view through September 3 at the MOMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, New York.
Photo and text Juliana Balestin
