MFA Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York presents 'It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards', an exhibition of work by multimedia artist Johan Grimonprez. Curated by faculty member Gianni Jetzer, the exhibition will be on view Saturday, January 17 - Saturday, January 31, 2015 at the SVA Chelsea Gallery, 601 West 26th Street, 15th floor, New York City.
The exhibition brings together four works: Looking for Alfred (commissioned by FVU in 2005), an homage to Hitchcock’s cameo appearances in his films, with a cast of look-alikes; Hitchcock didn’t have a Belly Button: Interview with Karen Black (2010), a recorded interview of the actress recounting her experiences with the legendary filmmaker; You Tube Me and I Tube You, a two-channel interaction installation and web project initiated in 2010; and I may have forever lost my umbrella (2011), a color short with a narration based on Fernando Pessoa’s Book of Disquiet underneath the images of YouTube videos of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, which is shown in New York for the first time in this exhibition.