Nancy Holt / Inside Outside
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Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) Plaça dels Àngels 1, 08001 Barcelona
Image courtesy of MACBA
On the edges of perception and the limits between inside and outside, the exhibition will show works by this pioneer of land art and installation spanning 1966 to 1992.
Nancy Holt (Worcester, Massachusetts, 1938-New York, 2014) was a central figure in the New York art scene and was an innovator of site-specific installation and the moving image. Inside Outside is the most extensive European survey of Holt’s practice and the most ambitious presentation ever of her multifaceted artistic oeuvre. Through a selection of works spanning 1966 to 1992, it includes film, video, photography, concrete poetry, sound works, sculpture and room-sized installations, as well as drawings and documentation of her Land art. Two installations from her site-responsive series System Works are presented in their first posthumous iterations, including Ventilation System, a playful sculpture covering several floors, both indoors and outdoors, in dialogue with the architecture of MACBA.
Perceptions and demarcations of being "inside" and "outside" guide this survey exhibition. Holt herself was an insider and an outsider: she was a key member of the Earth, Land and Conceptual art movements, yet her work is far less known than that of her male peers—a situation this exhibition seeks to address. Highlighting Holt’s commitment to perception, light and space, Nancy Holt / Inside Outside presents a number of previously unseen photoworks. Exhibited here for the first time, these form Holt’s series Alaskan Pines (1986), Athabascan/Russian Orthodox Graveyards (1986) and Miami Puddles (1969), and are all placed in the context of audio and moving image works observing travel through the North American landscape.
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