Ralph Lemon's exhibition 'Ceremonies Out of the Air' at MoMA PS1 showcases a blend of performance and multimedia art, beginning with the haunting performance 'Tell it anyway' by Okwui Okpokwasili. Through a diverse range of mediums including dance, video, and installation, Lemon engages with the themes of uncertainty and the physics of movement. One of the highlights, 'Rant (redux),' exemplifies this exploration of breakdown and reconstruction, emphasizing the emotional and conceptual depths of Lemon's artistic inquiries, capturing the essence of movement as both an argument and an experiment.
A delicate breakdown and a question unanswered: These are conceptual impulses that permeate the soaring breadth of Lemon's work.
In Lemon's case, as he says in the 2010 stage work, 'the question is, of course, the answer and the form in which the answer exists.'
An argument and an experiment are both movements, after all: ones that leave point A without knowing where point B is, or even if it exists.
Occupying the first and largest gallery of 'Ceremonies Out of the Air' was the four-channel video installation Rant (redux), made in collaboration with Kevin Beasley.
Collection
[
|
...
]