Video Art that Moves Through Time and Space
The November 2008 Artforum includes a feature on Belgian-born video artist Chantal Akerman, who has produced more than fifty video works over the past four decades. The New York Times had this to say on the artist’s catalog:
Not just a formalist, Ms. Akerman also takes on hot-button themes like racism in the American South, illegal immigration in the Southwest and a terrorism in the Mideast. As a political artist she can be heavy-handedly predictable or unexpectedly illuminating.
Currently based in Paris, Akerman’s latest work is featured in her first solo museum exhibition, “Chantal Akerman: Moving Through Time and Space,” which has traveled to the Blaffer Gallery at the Art Museum of the University of Houston and the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, MA.
The exhibit of five video installations is currently on view at the Miami Art Museum until January 25, 2009, when it will move to the Contemporary Art Museum of Saint Louis in May of 2009.
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