Double Take, 2018

An exhibition co-curated with Jaimey Hamilton Faris at the University of Hawai’i gallery. A comprehensive survey of Johan Grimonprez’s film and text works.

Johan Grimonprez’s practice bridges art and cinema, documentary and fiction. Informed by an archeology of present-day media, his work questions the contemporary fear industry that has infected political and social dialogue and suggests new narratives through which to tell different stories.

Born in Roeselare, Belgium in 1962, Grimonprez studied at the School of Visual Arts and attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New York. He now divides his time between Belgium and New York and is a faculty member at the School of Visual Arts (New York). Grimonprez's curatorial projects have been exhibited at museums worldwide, including the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; and MoMA. His works are in the collections of Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa; and Tate Modern, London. His distributors are Soda Pictures and Kino Lorber International, and his artwork is represented by the Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, and the gallerie kamel mennour, Paris.