Shelf Life

Karimah Ashadu

Harun Farocki

Carolyn Lazard

Sung Tieu

The four-person exhibition, Shelf Life, features artists utilizing moving image. Via appropriation, juxtaposition, documentary and abstraction, the works included offer glimpses into the conditions that shape contemporary life. Stylistically and visually, the videos take different approaches, but each does so with the history of the medium in mind and each in its own way communicates how specific histories inform the present, charting the ways in which representation, desire and agency are regulated by economic and bureaucratic systems.