Catalogue > Un extrait vidéo au hasard

In March 2020, Sophia and Steve Alcorn found themselves stranded in a one-bedroom apartment in Elmhurst, Queens. The married couple had just left Kentucky and moved to New York after Steve Alcorn started his residency in Elmhurst hospital. Sophia Alcorn feels alienated in the neighborhood, famous for its diversity, and finds comfort in the arms of a local young man. Meanwhile, Steve finds himself working extra hours volunteering with the rest of the hospital team, facing an epidemic they didn't know before. Elmhurst hospital found itself at the center of the storm, with a disproportionate number of critically ill people and deaths, and young Dr. Alcorn is overwhelmed by the swift changes in his private life and the morbid atmosphere at work. Affected by the situation, Sophia Alcorn decides to volunteer at a crisis line, where she surprisingly befriends a young woman called Annie. The young couple drifts apart. ?

Keren Cytter creates films, performances, drawings and photographs on topics of social alienation, language representation, and the function of individuals in predetermines cultural systems through experimental modes of storytelling and human perception. Selected solo exhibitions include: Ludwig Forum Aachen (2022) Kunstmuseum Winterthur (2020), Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv and Museion Bolzano (both in 2019) Künstlerhaus - Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz (2016) Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2015) and the Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen State of Concept, Athens (both in 2014,) Tate Modern Oil Tanks, London (2012,) Kunsthalle Bielefeld (2023, forthcoming,) Cytter was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2021.