Adolescence
Ange Leccia
April 7-23, 1999
Citywide
Photo © 1999 Robin Holland
In collaboration with Creative Time and Clinica Aesthetica Contemporary Art, Ange Leccia’s video arrangements were screened throughout New York City on the side of a HavaVision truck, a multimedia display unit equipped with two ten-foot video screens. For Leccia’s project, this mobile billboard–normally reserved for corporate advertising–instead served to probe the tensions between sensual imagery and society’s discomfort with voyeurism. In general, Leccia’s work is interested in developing contemplative and relational themes by manipulating and opposing video images rather than objects. Adolescence traveled through four boroughs, making stops at various cultural centers along the way, and complemented a concurrent show of Leccia’s video and sound installations, Yes, She Does, at Clinica Aesthetica. Additionally, Ille de Beaute, a film directed by Leccia and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, was screened at Tonic, and the artist’s video La Mer was screened from April 7-23 on the World Financial Center Winter Garden video wall.