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Kate Gilmore, Double Dutch, Courtesy Catharine Clark Gallery
Nov 22, 2008 – Jan 3, 2009
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Catharine Clark Gallery
150 Minna St
415.399.1439
Like Hannah Wilke and Joan Jonas before her, Kate Gilmore often plays herself in her very personal videos, throwing her body headlong into painful physical tasks. With Open Arms shows a dolled-up Gilmore struggling to fling her arms wide in an extravagant pose as someone off-screen pelts her with tomatoes. In Main Squeeze, another claustrophobic but riveting clip, she forces her way through a narrow wooden tunnel. For the viewer, her tenacity induces a chuckle, which quickly turns to empathy that twinges on self-recognition. After all, who hasn't starred in their own self-scripted psychodrama?
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