Author: Thomas Bayrle

Blouin Artinfo, June 14, 2018

Sue de Beer’s “The White Wolf” at Marianne Boesky Gallery June 21 through August 3, 2018

Sue de Beer’s sixth major film “The White Wolf” will be premiering at Marianne Boesky Gallery’s 507 West 24th Street location, along with a display of her early horror-inspired photographs, which are instrumental in the film’s realization. This new film was originally conceivedas part of de Beer’s John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, which she received in 2016, and employs its classic werewolf narrative as an instrument to examine the themes of transformation, memory, and the psychology and physicality that attribute to the sense of self. Presented as a non-linear, two-channel installation, the film “fuses the elements characteristic of the werewolf genre with a lyrical examination of the body and its relationship to the ephemeral sense of self,” says the gallery. It embodies the artist’s signature editing style, consisting of the persistence of vision, duplication, and reflection. To further relate the themes of the film, the film also includes dance sequences performed by McManus and Blakely White-McGuire of the Martha Graham Dance Company and tap dancer Kazu Kumagai— band-mate of lead actor Yuka Honda— who is also a New York-based experimental musician and composer.