The Menil Collection, Houston
January 26 – May 5, 2013
Untitled (Structures) is a collaborative project by artist Leslie Hewitt and cinematographer Bradford Young in response to the Adelaide de Menil Carpenter and Edmund Carpenter photography collection at the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas. The collection consists of photographs by Bob Adelman, Leonard Freed, Bruce Davidson, Danny Lyon, Dan Budnick and Elliott Erwitt, which document aspects of the CivilRights era. Inspired by the epic nature of the collection and critical of the gaps and silences in the collection regarding the history it represents, Hewitt in collaboration with Young worked on Untitled (Structures). This film-based project spanned two years of research addressing the perceivable limits of still photography and the photojournalistic forms associative of the era. The succession of non-linear silent film vignettes in Untitled (Structures) points to private spaces often unseen and explores landscape, interiority and notions of time. The film footage was shot on location in Memphis, TN, Chicago, IL and Delta Region in Arkansas.
Full Exhibition Dates
Des Moines Art Center
September 21, 2012 – January 27, 2013
The Menil Collection, Houston
January 26 – May 5, 2013
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
May 17 – August 31, 2014
Leslie Hewitt in collaboration with Bradford Young
Untitled (Structures), 2012
dual channel video installation
00:16:47:00 loop
35 mm film transferred to HD video
Produced by Karin Chien
Commissioned by the Menil Collection, Houston, with the support of Jerean and Holland Chaney,in collaboration with the Des Moines Art Center and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
Additional funding provided by Joseph Chung, Marilyn and Larry Fields, and Elliot and Kimberly Perry
Material support provided by Kodak, Panavision, Harbor Picture Company
