"The exhibition includes two films featuring their signature black-and-white sets and costumes. "This is Offal" is inspired by Thomas Hood's 1844 poem, The Bridge of Sighs, in which the narrator, a forensic pathologist, laments the suicide of a young woman whose body is pulled from the Thames. The Kelleys' new film, "In the Body of the Sturgeon," brings a feminist perspective to an exploration of life on a submarine stationed in the Pacific at the end of World War II, with the USS Torsk docked in Baltimore's Inner Harbor inspiring the mise-en-scène. The exhibition also includes six light boxes featuring characters from both films and elements from the Kelleys' sculptural sets."-- Baltimore Museum of Art website
Language
English
Pages
123
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Tate Liverpool
Release
May 10, 2022
ISBN
1849765979
ISBN 13
9781849765978
We Are Ghosts: Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley
"The exhibition includes two films featuring their signature black-and-white sets and costumes. "This is Offal" is inspired by Thomas Hood's 1844 poem, The Bridge of Sighs, in which the narrator, a forensic pathologist, laments the suicide of a young woman whose body is pulled from the Thames. The Kelleys' new film, "In the Body of the Sturgeon," brings a feminist perspective to an exploration of life on a submarine stationed in the Pacific at the end of World War II, with the USS Torsk docked in Baltimore's Inner Harbor inspiring the mise-en-scène. The exhibition also includes six light boxes featuring characters from both films and elements from the Kelleys' sculptural sets."-- Baltimore Museum of Art website