Abigail DeVille's Harlem Stories: ART21 New York Close Up

20148m
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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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