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Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley, You Make Me Iliad, 2010

Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley

You Make Me Iliad, 2010
HD video, sound
14’49”
edition of 6 plus 2 artist's proofs
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You Make Me Iliad, a video that combines live-action performance and stop-motion animation, is primarily set in a brothel in German-occupied Belgium toward the end of World War I. Mary...
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You Make Me Iliad, a video that combines live-action performance and stop-motion animation, is primarily set in a brothel in German-occupied Belgium toward the end of World War I. Mary Reid Kelley posits the brothel as a metaphoric space in which wartime exchanges and moral compromises, sexual and non-sexual, are explored. The main characters in this work, a Belgian prostitute and a German soldier, are both portrayed by Reid Kelley herself. Their dialogue is written in a style that evokes epic poetry and is saturated with puns, rhyme and wordplay.
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Exhibitions

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Making Histories, curated by Raechell Smith and David Cateforis, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas, 7 February - 4 April 2015
Mary Reid Kelley and Maria Lassnig, Rose Video Series 03, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, March 25 2014
Mary Reid Kelley: Working Objects and Videos, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz; University Art Museum, University at Albany, State University of New York, New York, 22 Janary - 13 April, 2014
H/Qu: Mary Reid Kelley with Patrick Kelley, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, 29 May - 20 September, 2012
Performing Histories: Mary Reid Kelley, Salina Art Center, Salina, Kansas, 6 April - 24 June 2012
Weighted Words, curated by Ellen Mara De Wachter, Zabludowicz Collection, London, 1 March - 10 June 2012
You Make Me Iliad, Pilar Corrias, London, UK, 10 September - 6 October 2010

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