Screening and Talk
Anna Weyant
Austin Weyant
Friday, March 22, 2024, 6:30pm
Metrograph, New York
metrograph.com
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Join Anna Weyant and her brother, actor Austin Weyant, for a conversation and screening on the occasion of Anna Weyant Selects, a film program curated by the artist as part of an ongoing series copresented by Gagosian and Metrograph. The pair will introduce the selected films—Lost in Translation (2003), Gone Girl (2014), and Parasite (2019)—which explore power dynamics, complexities, and deceptions in relationships and wider society, as well as discuss the impact film has had on their respective practices. After the talk, Lost in Translation, directed by Sofia Coppola, will be screened.
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Still from Lost in Translation (2003), directed by Sofia Coppola
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Screening
Anna Weyant Selects
March 22–April 2, 2024
Metrograph, New York
metrograph.com
Anna Weyant has curated a selection of three films as part of an ongoing series copresented by Gagosian and Metrograph. Weyant comments, “The experience of watching each of these films is markedly different with respect to their individual style, storytelling, aesthetic, and dialogue. When I consider what it is about these stories that resonates with me, I am repeatedly drawn to their through lines of the power dynamics, complexities, and deceptions in relationships (and society); the uneasiness that comes from not fully knowing one’s surroundings (or the company one keeps); and our inherent desires for connection in an increasingly isolating world.”
Featured films include
Lost in Translation (2003, directed by Sofia Coppola)
Gone Girl (2014, directed by David Fincher)
Parasite (2019, directed by Bong Joon Ho)
Still from Gone Girl (2013), directed by David Fincher
Commission
Anna Weyant
La Forza del Destino
January 30–March 31, 2024
Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center, New York
www.metopera.org
As part of the Gallery Met Banners project, the Metropolitan Opera has commissioned Anna Weyant to create a painting to celebrate the staging of Giuseppe Verdi’s Italian opera La Forza del Destino. The work will be reproduced in the form of a sixty-foot banner installed on the façade of Lincoln Center in New York during the production. Weyant’s painting, which shares the same name as the opera, portrays Leonora, the tortured principal character, with closed eyes, bright red lips, and a single visible pearl earring. The words “Forza” and “Destino” are rendered in a vintage font with a scarlet hue and bloody “dripping” effect, evoking posters for classic Italian-made horror movies of the 1950s and ’60s.
Anna Weyant, La Forza del Destino, 2023, installation view, Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center, New York © Anna Weyant. Photo: Jonathan Tichler/Met Opera
Panel Discussion
Anna Weyant, Hilary Harkness, Hiba Schahbaz
Moderated by Glenn Fuhrman
Saturday, May 6, 2023, 5:30pm
FLAG Art Foundation, New York
www.flagartfoundation.org
Join FLAG Art Foundation for a panel discussion between Anna Weyant and fellow artists Hilary Harkness and Hiba Schahbaz, moderated by FLAG founder Glenn Fuhrman, on the occasion of the opening of In New York, Thinking of You: Part II. The group will discuss the works in the exhibition, which was inspired by the often conflicting emotions and experiences described in the song “hornylovesickmess” by Norwegian singer-songwriter Marie Ulven (aka the girl in red), including desire, longing, sex, melancholy, vulnerability, and power.
Left: Anna Weyant. Photo: courtesy the artist. Middle: Hilary Harkness. Photo: Paul Porter. Right: Hiba Schahbaz. Photo: courtesy the artist
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