Image: Mary Kelly, Interim: Corpus, Preliminary Artwork, 1984, photographs, paper, acetate, pencil, ink, collage, 30 parts, 58.4 x 47.2 cm, 23 x 18.6 in each. Collection Centre Pompidou, Paris. Image courtesy Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London. © Centre Pompidou-Metz / Photo Marc Domage / 2023 / Exposition La Répétition
Pippy Houldsworth Gallery is delighted to announce that Mary Kelly's Interim: Corpus, Preliminary Artwork, 1984, is part of the exhibition La Répétition at Centre Pompidou-Metz, opening 4 February 2023 and running until 27 January 2025. Curated by Éric de Chassey, the exhibition which draws on works from the Collection of Centre Pompidou, Paris, explores how creation can also proceed by repetition, emphasis, multiplication, counting and accumulation, rather than in isolated works or gestures.
Regarded as one of the most significant conceptual artists working today, Mary Kelly is known for her large-scale projects that address questions of sexuality, identity and historical memory. Her most significant installations include Post-Partum Document (1973-79), Interim (1984-89), The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi (2001), Circa Trilogy (2004-16) and Love Songs (2005-07).
Corpus, Preliminary Artwork (1984) comprises the complete set of thirty collages that informed the production of the first part of Interim (1984-89), Mary Kelly’s ambitious four-part exploration of the woman-as-subject. Whilst Kelly’s iconic Post-Partum Document (1973-79) unveils the heavily prescribed nature of motherhood, the female narrator in Interim investigates the stark, unknown terrain of middle-age life as she finds herself stranded between roles.
Mary Kelly (b. 1941, Fort Dodge, Iowa) lives and works in Los Angeles. She has been the subject of numerous museum exhibitions worldwide. Her work resides in permanent museum collections including Tate, London; The Museum of Modern Art, NY; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; MOCA, Los Angeles; Arts Council England; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; LACMA, Los Angeles, and many others. Her current exhibition Mary Kelly: To Witness the Future is on view at the Art Gallery of Guelph, Ontario, having toured from Georgetown University’s De La Cruz Art Gallery...
Regarded as one of the most significant conceptual artists working today, Mary Kelly is known for her large-scale projects that address questions of sexuality, identity and historical memory. Her most significant installations include Post-Partum Document (1973-79), Interim (1984-89), The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi (2001), Circa Trilogy (2004-16) and Love Songs (2005-07).
Corpus, Preliminary Artwork (1984) comprises the complete set of thirty collages that informed the production of the first part of Interim (1984-89), Mary Kelly’s ambitious four-part exploration of the woman-as-subject. Whilst Kelly’s iconic Post-Partum Document (1973-79) unveils the heavily prescribed nature of motherhood, the female narrator in Interim investigates the stark, unknown terrain of middle-age life as she finds herself stranded between roles.
Mary Kelly (b. 1941, Fort Dodge, Iowa) lives and works in Los Angeles. She has been the subject of numerous museum exhibitions worldwide. Her work resides in permanent museum collections including Tate, London; The Museum of Modern Art, NY; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; MOCA, Los Angeles; Arts Council England; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; LACMA, Los Angeles, and many others. Her current exhibition Mary Kelly: To Witness the Future is on view at the Art Gallery of Guelph, Ontario, having toured from Georgetown University’s De La Cruz Art Gallery...
3 February 2023
