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Easypieces

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Mika Rottenberg
New Museum, New York, NY
June 26–September 22, 2019
Exhibition Grant

This survey exhibition of recent work by New York–based artist Mika Rottenberg was her first solo museum show in the United States and premiered her new film made specifically for the exhibition, Easypieces (2019). Employing absurdist satire while addressing pressing issues of our times, Mika Rottenberg’s fantastical videos and installations create surreal allegories for contemporary life. Easypieces expands on her exploration of labor, technology, distance, and matter in relationship to the seemingly immaterial. Through locations and subjects as diverse as a potato farm in Maine, Tuvan throat singers in Siberia, a bitcoin mine in Iceland, and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland, the work explores the idea of humans as composed of and as manipulators of matter, revealing the interconnectedness between the mechanical and the corporeal.

Mika Rottenberg, installation view of “Easypieces,” the New Museum, New York, 2019.

Mika Rottenberg, Cosmic Generator (Tunnel Variant), 2017. Video, sound, color, 26:37 min.

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