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Omer Fast, Production still from The Casting, 2007
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Opens Friday Oct 24, 2008 (5–7pm)
Oct 24, 2008 – Jan 3, 2009
Tuesdays–Saturdays (11am–6pm)
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Omer Fast rightly grabbed the grand prize at the 2008 Whitney Biennial for The Casting, a challenging four-screen video piece that interweaves two divergent stories told by an American soldier. As Fast adroitly reveals layers of mediation in this scenario, he leads us to question the representation of events and consider the slipperiness of storytelling. Joining The Casting here is a new video, Looking Pretty for God (After GW), co-commissioned by SAIC. Per his usual methods, Fast dissonantly combines interviews with staged elements — in this case, funeral directors describing their work and posing children who lip-synch their words at a commercial photo shoot.
