Wednesday, April 2 at 6 p.m. in the Dryden Theatre
Liz Deschenes (American, b. 1966). Exhibition view, Liz Deschenes: Frames per Second (Silent), George Eastman Museum, 2025. © the artist, courtesy Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York; Emanuela Campoli, Paris and Milan; and Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.
With her exhibition Frames per Second (Silent) as a focus, Liz Deschenes will be in conversation with Phil Taylor, associate curator at the George Eastman Museum, on Wednesday, April 2 at 6 p.m. in the Dryden Theatre.
The discussion will include the development of the exhibition, the threads of Deschenes' practice that it brings together, and how the artist conceives of her ongoing investigations of the histories of photography and film.
Working with photographic media and their histories, Liz Deschenes deconstructs conventional photographic and cinematic systems with a mixture of devotion and irreverence. The exhibition is presented in conjunction with the museum's 75th anniversary.
The selection of new works created for the exhibition draws connections among the museum's collections of photography, film, and technology, testing the potential of these media to reproduce (and produce) perceptions of time and color. Deschenes probes how such technologies are themselves unstable and subject to change. The artist says, "Moving images become still objects, and still objects become moving images."
The presentation of Liz Deschenes: Frames per Second (Silent) situates the artist's work in direct dialogue with nearby long-term displays of early cinematographic cameras and apparatuses, Technicolor dyes, and the exhibition Life with Photographs: 75 Years of the Eastman Museum. Liz Deschenes: Frames per Second (Silent) is on view at the George Eastman Museum through August 18.
The conversation is free for members and students with valid ID and $15 for non-members.
Liz Deschenes: Frames per Second (Silent) is generously made possible by Deborah Ronnen. With additional support from John Benis and Elaine Goldman. Major support for the 75th Anniversary exhibitions provided by the Rubens Family Foundation.
About Liz Deschenes
Described by critic Martha Schwendener as "one of the quiet giants of post-conceptual photography" in the New York Times, Liz Deschenes lives and works in New York. Solo institutional exhibitions of her work include Liz Deschenes, ICA Boston (2016); Gallery 4.1.1, MASS MoCA, North Adams, Mass. (2015); Gallery 7, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2014); Parcours, with Florian Plumhösl, Art Institute of Chicago (2012); and the Secession, Vienna (2012). Deschenes's work has also been included in notable recent group exhibitions at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Pinault Collection, Bourse de Commerce, Paris, and Punta della Dogana, Venice; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; ICA Los Angeles; and Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany. Her work is held in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, Paris; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Art Institute of Chicago; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, among others.
About the George Eastman Museum
Founded in 1947, the George Eastman Museum is the world's oldest photography museum and one of the largest film archives in the United States, located on the historic Rochester estate of entrepreneur and philanthropist George Eastman, the pioneer of popular photography. Its holdings comprise more than 400,000 photographs, 28,000 motion picture films, the world's preeminent collection of photographic and cinematographic technology, one of the leading libraries of books related to photography and cinema, and extensive holdings of documents and other objects related to George Eastman. As a research and teaching institution, the Eastman Museum has an active publishing program, and its L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation's graduate program (a collaboration with the University of Rochester) makes critical contributions to film preservation. For more information, visit eastman.org.
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ATTN. Media: High-resolution images for Liz Deschenes: Frames per Second (Silent) can be provided by request.
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