Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin (both *1981) are acclaimed for a collaborative practice that fuses non-linear films with immersive installations. Rhizome-like narratives and an imploding dramaturgical logic characterize their film and video work. Protagonists embody fluid gender roles and forms of fragmented subjectivity in a buoyant clash of reality TV- and social-media identity tropes. The American duo is currently based in Athens, Ohio. They conceive of their installations as “sculptural theaters” in which viewers themselves become actors.
Lizzie Fitch / Ryan Trecartin, It Waives Back (Whether Line), 2019–24 (still)
Lizzie Fitch / Ryan Trecartin
It Waives Back
Prada Aoyama, Tokyo
Through January 13, 2025
Prada presents the exhibition It Waives Back, organized with the support of Fondazione Prada, at Prada Aoyama Tokyo. The sixth floor of the building, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, will host the first presentation of this work by American collaborative artists Fitch and Trecartin in Asia, and their first solo show in Japan.
The exhibition presents new movies and sculptures conceived by Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin as part of a broader body of work that began in 2016, when the artists moved their home and studio to rural Ohio. The foundational body of work, titled Whether Line, was commissioned by Fondazione Prada and debuted in 2019 as a large-scale multimedia installation in Milan. As explained by the artists, “Our project in Ohio is intended to be a ‘life project,’ providing space for experimentation and collaboration. Our goal is to allow the purpose of the space to evolve and grow.”
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