next stop … Cannes

with Michele Abeles, Loretta Fahrenholz, and Emily Sundblad

Tuesday, February 11, 6:30pm
Géza, 306 Maujer

Still from Loretta Fahrenholz, A Decade that Exploded, 2012-2021, courtesy the artist.

Join us for next stop … Cannes, the U.S. premiere of Loretta Fahrenholz’s film A Decade That Exploded (2012–21, 36 min). Presented as part of the closing weekend for Loretta’s exhibition at Amant, this screening will be followed by a performative Q&A with the artist herself and two of the film’s actors, Michele Abeles and Emily Sundblad.

A Decade That Exploded follows the lives of collector Thea Westreich as well as Michele Abeles and Emily Sundblad, two artists living in New York City. The first half of the film, shot in 2012, contrasts with the second half, filmed during the 2020 lockdown. The latter is composed of fragments of the protagonists’ everyday lives, recorded in isolation in their different spaces of retreat.

Amant programs are always free. RSVPs are strongly encouraged. Seating is first come, first served with some standing room available. Doors for next stop … Cannes will open at 6:15pm on Tuesday, February 11 in Géza, located at 306 Maujer.

Michele Abeles is a visual artist based in New York. Abeles uses photography to explore the contemporary experience of the digital revolution and its affect on the human body, it’s mind and social relationships. In her most recent exhibition, Turbo at 47 Canal (2024), Abeles photographed busted car parts and parrots as a meditation on the years 2020-2024. Abeles views those as transitional years where the push for artificial general intelligence accelerated and began to shape social media and the internet into echo chambers of human expression. Abeles work has been shown internationally, including World Cup, Sadie Coles, London (2018); mumok – Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation, Vienna (2019); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2015); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2014, 2012); among others.

Loretta Fahrenholz is a filmmaker and visual artist based in Berlin. Fahrenholz’s work has been shown internationally, including solo exhibitions at Bergen Kunsthall (2023), Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2022), n.b.k. – Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (2021), mumok – Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation, Vienna (2018); Fridericianum, Kassel (2016), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2016), and Kunsthalle Zürich (2015), as well as film screenings at CPH:DOX, Copenhagen (2024), Ann Arbor Film Festival (2019, 2020, 2021), and Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (2014, 2020), among others.

Emily Sundblad lives and works in New York. Artist, performer and co-founder of Reena Spaulings Fine Art, Sundblad fluidly performs different identities. In her work, advertisements, souvenirs, floral arrangements and songs participate in a web of commerce as artworks only by declaring its value. She has had several solo exhibitions, including Secrets and Waves at Weiss Falk in Zürich (2024), Un Violent Désir de Bonheur at Galerie Hussenot in Paris (2023), A Summer Without You at House of Gaga in Los Angeles (2023), Underlivet at Bortolami Gallery in New York (2022); Das Krokodil und die Muschel – The Crocodile and the Seashell at Weiss Falk in Basel (2021), Promenade des Anglais at Campoli Presti in Paris (2020), Toilet Feelings Are Normal at Galerie Neu in Berlin (2019), El Beso at House of Gaga in Mexico City (2019), and Charline at Xavier Hufkens in Brussels (2017).

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