Until September 6, 2010
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Much of contemporary photography and video seems haunted by the past, by ghostly apparitions that are reanimated in reproductive media, as well as in live performance and the virtual world. By using dated, passé, or quasi-extinct stylistic devices, subject matter, and technologies, this art embodies a melancholic longing for an otherwise irrecuperable past. Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance examines myriad ways photographic imagery is incorporated into recent practice and in the process underscores the unique power of reproductive media while documenting a widespread contemporary obsession, both collective and individual, with accessing the past. The works included in the exhibition range from individual photographs and photographic series, to sculptures and paintings that incorporate photographic elements, and to videos, both on monitors and projected, as well as film, performance, and site-specific installations.

work by Marina Abramovic, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Sophie Calle, Tacita Dean, Stan Douglas, Felix Gonzalez- Torres, Roni Horn, Zoe Leonard, Robert Rauschenberg, Cindy Sherman, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Jeff Wall, and Andy Warhol. But a significant part of the exhibition is dedicated to work created since 2001 by younger artists.

curated by Jennifer Blessing, Curator of Photography, and Nat Trotman, Associate Curator

The exhibition is accompanied by a parallel program:

Artist Performance
Sharon Hayes Saturday, July 24, 3–7:45 pm
Tris Vonna-Michell Thursday, July 29, 7 pm and 8 pm

Artist Films
Fridays, free with museum admission
These films created by artists explore themes from the Haunted exhibition, including appropriation and the archive, documentation and reiteration, trauma and the uncanny, and the effects of the passage of time on landscape and architecture.

Andy Warhol: Screen Tests (1964– 66)
July 16, 1 pm, 2 pm, 3 pm, and 4 pm
Johan Grimonprez: Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y (1997)
July 23 and 30 and August 6, 1 pm, 2:15 pm, and 3:30 pm

August 13 and 20 and September 3
Samuel Beckett: Film (1965)
1 pm, 2 pm, 3 pm, and 4 pm
Stan Douglas: Vidéo (2007)
1:30 pm, 2:30 pm, 3:30 pm, and 4:30 pm

More info:
www.guggenheim.org/haunted

Images:
Luisa Lambri, Untitled (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, #05) (from Guggenheim Pictures: A Conceptual Portfolio), 2006. Two chromogenic prints, 95.3 x 113 cm each. Photo: David Heald and Kristopher McKay

Luis Jacob, Album IV, 2004-05. Photomontage in plastic laminate, 84 panels, 45.7 x 30.5 cm each. Photo: David Heald and Kristopher McKay

Luis Jacob, Album IV, 2004-05 (detail). Photomontage in plastic laminate, 84 panels, 45.7 x 30.5 cm each. Photo: Luis Jacob