SCHINDLER
/ GLASS
The two-channel projected image installation Schindler/Glass was shot entirely at two iconic modernist homes: R.M. Schindler’s house on North Kings Road in West Hollywood, California, and Philip Johnson’s Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut. Both are homes the architects built for themselves to shelter relationships as experimental as their designs; Schindler built his house in 1922 for two young couples in an early example of communal living, while The Glass House famously accommodated the architect and his partner David Whitney in a relationship that preceded the Stonewall rebellion and endured for more than 40 years. The loose narrative of the 35-minute film follows a family of siblings as they fall in and out of sync, couple and split, return and regroup across the two sites. The film is exhibited as an installation projected on two free-standing walls set at an oblique angle, with a gap between and on the sides for circulation.
Schindler/Glass, 2017. HD video on two channels, color, sound, 35 minutes. Lilja Ruriksdottir.
Schindler/Glass, 2017. HD video on two channels, color, sound, 35 minutes. Installation view: Carré d’Art – Musée d’art contemporain de Nîmes, France.
Schindler/Glass, 2017. HD video on two channels, color, sound, 35 minutes.
Schindler/Glass, 2017. HD video on two channels, color, sound, 35 minutes. Installation view: Seattle Art Fair.
Schindler/Glass, 2017. HD video on two channels, color, sound, 35 minutes. Installation view: Pioneer Works, Brooklyn.
2023 | Solo exhibition
Gerard & Kelly: Ruins, Carré d’Art – Musée d’art contemporain de Nîmes, France2020 | Screening
Cinéma Spoutnik, Geneva 2019 | Screening
Centre Pompidou, Paris2018 | Solo exhibition
Gerard & Kelly: CLOCKWORK, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn 2017 | Solo exhibition
Gerard & Kelly: Modern Living, Seattle Art Fair
Gerard & Kelly: Ruins, Carré d’Art – Musée d’art contemporain de Nîmes, France2020 | Screening
Cinéma Spoutnik, Geneva 2019 | Screening
Centre Pompidou, Paris2018 | Solo exhibition
Gerard & Kelly: CLOCKWORK, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn 2017 | Solo exhibition
Gerard & Kelly: Modern Living, Seattle Art Fair
CreditsWith L.A. Dance Project: Stephanie Amurao, Anthony Bryant, Aaron Carr, Julia Eichten, Morgan Lugo, Nathan Makolandra, Robbie Moore, Rachelle Rafailedes, Lilja Ruriksdottir | Music: SOPHIE, Lucky Dragons | Directors of photography: Javier Bosques, Alex Salinas-Albrecht | Editors: Kate Abernathy, Abigail Collins | Costume design: Stacey Berman | Postproduction: Harbor Picture Company
Schindler/Glass was originally co-presented by the Frye Art Museum and Seattle Art Fair. Additional production support and a residency was provided by EMPAC / Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Schindler/Glass was originally co-presented by the Frye Art Museum and Seattle Art Fair. Additional production support and a residency was provided by EMPAC / Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.