Presented by Friends of the High Line, High Line Art commissions and produces public art projects on and around the High Line. Founded in 2009, High Line Art presents a wide array of artwork including site-specific commissions, exhibitions, performances, video programs, and a series of billboard interventions. Curated by Cecilia Alemani, the Donald R. Mullen, Jr. Curator & Director of High Line Art, and produced by Friends of the High Line, High Line Art invites artists to think of creative ways to engage with the uniqueness of the architecture, history, and design of the High Line and to foster a productive dialogue with the surrounding neighborhood and urban landscape.
Program Description
Solar
Ongoing Exhibition: October 10 – December 4, 5PM-10PM Daily
The High Line
Solar is an exhibition in video format that will be presented on the High Line during October and November 2013. The exhibition will feature recent videos by acclaimed international artists who use their work to explore the spectacle of nature and the sense of cosmic stupor that captures humans when faced with the sublime vastness of our planet. Solar features works by Rosa Barba, Neil Beloufa, Camille Henrot, Basim Magdy. The artists engage science fiction, ecological research, and travel—depicting the Earth as it faces climate change and ecological transformation. Their works capture natural phenomena, animal behaviors, and human interactions from around the world in a series of lyrical documentaries. They offer a metaphor for the perennial struggle between humans and the environment as we try to find a precarious balance of mutual respect.
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Special Thanks
Ballroom Marfa
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
The Public Concern Foundation
Header image credit:
Washington Grasslands, aerial view of the High Line over Little West 12th Street. Photo © Iwan Baan. Courtesy of Friends of the High Line.
Slideshow image credits
Film stills:
Rosa Barba, Somnium, 2011. 16-mm film transferred to video, color, optical sound,18 min. Courtesy the artist, video data bank, chicago and gió marconi, milan. © rosa barba 2011
Neil Beloufa, Kempinski, 2007. Video, sound, 14 min. Courtesy the artist, Balice Hertling, Paris and Francois Ghebaly, Los Angeles.
Camille Henrot, Million Dollar Point, 2011, Video, 5 min 35 s. Courtesy the artist and kamel mennour, Paris. © Camille Henrot
Basim Magdy, Time Laughs Back at You Like a Sunken Ship, 2012, Super 8 film transferred to HD video. 9 min. 31 sec. Courtesy Newman Popiashvili Gallery
Installation shots:
Rosa Barba, Somnium, 2011. Part of Solar, on High Line Channel 14. On view October 10 – December 4, 2013, on the High Line at West 14th Street. Photo by Timothy Schenck. Courtesy of Friends of the High Line.
Neil Beloufa, Kempinski, 2007. Part of Solar, on High Line Channel 14. On view October 10 – December 4, 2013, on the High Line at West 14th Street. Photo by Timothy Schenck. Courtesy of Friends of the High Line.
Camille Henrot, Million Dollars Point, 2011. Part of Solar, on High Line Channel 14. On view October 10 – December 4, 2013, on the High Line at West 14th Street. Photo by Timothy Schenck. Courtesy of Friends of the High Line.
Basim Magdy, Time Laughs Back at You Like a Sunken Ship, 2012. Part of Solar, on High Line Channel 14. On view October 10 – December 4, 2013, on the High Line at West 14th Street. Photo by Timothy Schenck. Courtesy of Friends of the High Line.
Event Info
Solar
Ongoing Exhibition: Oct. 10 – Dec. 4
5PM-10PM Daily
14th Street Passage, on the High Line at 14th Street and 10th Avenue