MELANIE GILLIGAN EXHIBITION
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art
December 13, 2016 – February 25, 2017
The system is broken. The system is rigged. Statements like these are familiar to a politically polarized American public, but rarely does political rhetoric go beyond the sound bite.
The celebrity dimension of politics distracts from a detailed understanding of the economic forces that shape our lives.
But Melanie Gilligan pays close attention to those forces.
Through complex installations of her low-budget films, Gilligan offers powerful reflections on life in late capitalism. Blurring the distinctions between episodic television, documentary film, gallery exhibition, and theater, she presents remarkably perceptive assessments of the political conditions of our time.
Melanie Gilligan (b. 1979 in Toronto) lives and works between New York and London. Gilligan was the 2016 Capp Street Artist in Residence.
