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Peggy Ahwesh
ARTIST BIO & EXHIBITIONS
Over the last twenty years, Peggy Ahwesh has produced one of the most heterogeneous bodies of work in the field of experimental film and video. A true bricoleur, her tools include narrative and documentary styles, improvised performance and scripted dialogue, synch-sound film, found footage, digital animation, and crude Pixelvision video. The work is primarily an investigation cultural identity and the role of the subject, in various genres.
Ahwesh work with subversively amateur forms, and also a discourse that yielded traditionally female-gendered themes like home and family, relationships, and confessions, which she appropriated as scenarios. Her practice insists on political and social topicality, handled with theoretical and formal rigor, with a nod to popular culture forms. She draws the audience into the world and traditions of avant-garde film and video, where, as she has remarked, "there's nothing to prove and no money to make," only the pleasures of the text.
Ahwesh was the subject of a midcareer retrospective, Girls Beware! at the Whitney Museum (1997). Other retrospectives include: Filmmuseum, Brussels, Belgium; Carpenter Center at Harvard University; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh and Cinematexas 6, Austin, Texas. She has screened work in the Whitney Biennial (1991, 1995, 2002); New York Film Festival (1998, 2007); Flaherty Film Seminar (20
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THE FALLING SKY
2017 / HD / color / sound / single screen / 9' 30 / 43 € distribution: Digital file on server |
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THE BLACKEST SEA
2016 / HD / color / sound / single screen / 9' 00 / 43 € distribution: Digital file on server |
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LESSONS OF WAR
2015 / HD / color / sound / single screen / 6' 00 / 42 € distribution: Digital file on server |
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BETHLEHEM
2009 / Video / color / sound / single screen / 8' 30 / 42 € distribution: Digital file on server |
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BEIRUT OUTTAKES
2007 / Video / color / sound / single screen / 7' 30 / 41 € distribution: Digital file on server |
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THE THIRD BODY
2007 / Video / color / sound / single screen / 8' 45 / 42 € distribution: Digital file on server |
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WARM OBJECTS
2007 / Video / color / silent / single screen / 6' 00 / 42 € distribution: Digital file on server |
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SHE PUPPET
2001 / Video game / color / sound / single screen / 15' 00 / 50 € distribution: Digital file on server |
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THE VISION MACHINE
1997 / 16mm / color-b&w / sound / single screen / 20' 00 / 88 € distribution: 16mm |
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THE COLOR OF LOVE
1994 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 10' 00 / 45 € distribution: 16mm |
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STRANGE WEATHER
1993 / Pixelvision / b&w / sound / single screen / 50' 00 / 174 € distribution: Digital file on server |