Abigail DeVille's Harlem Stories: ART21 New York Close Up
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How does an artist acknowledge forgotten people? In this film, artist Abigail DeVille stalks the streets and riverfronts of Harlem, New York with a trash-laden push cart. DeVille creates temporary sculptural interventions out of distressed wood, rusty metal, mannequin heads, and trash bags, dramatizing hidden collective histories of marginalization and loss.
- Runtime
- 8m
- Released
- 2014
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Release year: 2014
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How does an artist acknowledge forgotten people? In this film, artist Abigail DeVille stalks the streets and riverfronts of Harlem, New York with a trash-laden push cart. DeVille creates temporary sculptural interventions out of distressed wood, rusty metal, mannequin heads, and trash bags, dramatizing hidden collective histories of marginalization and loss.
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