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.
Ryan Trecartin
Re'Search Wait’S
September 12, 2019–February 29, 2020
Berlin
Ryan Trecartin is widely known for his influential videos, sculptures, and installations. His highly inventive and prescient work has been crucial to understanding the mutability of language and the totalizing effects of technology and social media on subject formation in the twenty-first century. The exhibition Re’Search Wait’S comes from the ambitious multi-movie project, Any Ever. Trecartin uses poetic, formal, and structural elaborations of new forms of technology, language narrative, identity, and humanity, to portray an extra-dimensional world that channels the existential dramas of our own. Any Ever’s core material is the perpetual flux of relationships among characters patterned to form constellations of meaning across the videos.
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