MoMA PS1 Presents Ryan Trecartin Exhibition, 6/19-9/3

MoMA PS1 presents the first large-scale museum exhibition in New York of work by the artist Ryan Trecartin (American, b. 1981). Ryan Trecartin: Any Ever fills seven galleries with sculptural theater installations that house projections of the seven movies comprising Trecartin's most recent body of work, Any Ever (2009-2010). The exhibition is on view in the First Floor Main Galleries from June 19 through September 3, 2011, and is organized by Klaus Biesenbach, Director, MoMA PS1, and Chief Curator at Large, The Museum of Modern Art, with the assistance of Eliza Ryan, Curatorial Assistant, MoMA PS1.

Trecartin's distinctive cinematic and sculptural language-developed through a close synergy with his primary collaborator, Lizzie Fitch-continues a tradition of art that heralds, shapes, and challenges the defining technologies and cultural advances of the era. Consistent with his work to date, Any Ever explores emergent concepts of identity, narrative, language, and visual culture through darkly jubilant, frenetic formal experimentations.

Shot in Miami, Florida, and made with contributors ranging from friends and artists to child actors and reality-television performers, Any Ever comprises seven autonomous but interrelated videos. The work is structured as a diptych, with Trill-ogy Comp (three movies) as one section and Re'Search Wait'S (four movies) as the other. Taken together, these videos embark on poetic, formal, and structural elaborations of new forms of technology, language, narrative, identity, and humanity, portraying an extra-dimensional world that channels the existential dramas of our own. The individual videos fit together in shifting combinations, with Any Ever's master narrative chosen by each viewer.