JANET BIGGS @ Art Basel Miami Beach Film Program : LARGER THAN LIFE

Read a great paper by Susan Silas !

Picture by Susan Silas. Biggs’s videos were presented by Cristin Tierney Gallery as part of the Art Basel Miami Beach Film program, called Our Hidden Futures and curated by David Gryn, who’s also the director of Daata Editions and London’s Artprojx

Janet Biggs  is a modern-day adventurer, an explorer in the best sense. Not a white male imperialist, but a woman keen to see the edges and create aesthetic experiences from within those spaces. In the past few years Biggs has visited a number of extreme landscapes to make work: crystal caverns below the German Merkers salt mine, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China, the Arctic. Often her videos are structured as binaries in which two specific subcultures or specialized environments are paired with one another to create meaning.

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