Heather Bennett at Bruno David Gallery November 12, 2010

In the Media Room, the gallery presents “The Empire Trilogy”, a video by New York-based artist Heather Bennett with music by Joe Raglani. With a nod to Warhol’s, 1964 opus, “Empire”, this trilogy of videos resists any typical temporal, action-based narrative, and yet simultaneously suggests it.

Each piece centers around a lone woman, all of whom almost slyly encompass a panoply of reflecting fictions. The amalgamated ‘characters’ take substance from childhood fairytales, contemporary fashion, female genre roles and a healthy dose of nostalgia and somehow coalesce into a peaceful, almost quieting image. The enmeshing of an anti-narrative and obvious reference to the bold fiction of children’s fairytales complicate the calm hold of these images with humor; slithering alloys placing ironies.

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