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(Spoiler alert: this article contains information and plot points from the fifth episode of The Exhibit, a docuseries created by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and MTV.)
For the fifth episode of The Exhibit, the seven artists were back at it again, this time reimagining one of their past works to represent their hopes for the future. The show may now be winding down, with just one more episode to go, but tensions still ran high as the artists raced to complete the assignment in ten hours.
This week’s guest judges, alongside Hirshhorn director Melissa Chiu, included acclaimed sculptor and installation art Abigail DeVille, whose 2020 piece Light of Freedom currently resides in the museum’s sculpture garden, and Keith Rivers, an art collector, former NFL player, and member of the institution’s board of trustees. They judged the works on the basis of originality, quality of execution, and concept of work.
Nam June Paik, the video artist who predicted a paperless society in 1968 and created TV glasses in 1971, long before Google Glass existed, served as the inspiration for this week’s assignment.
Jennifer Warren created an oil painting of a screaming face that was based on her work Cool Facade, wherein she expressed her pure terror in the face of rapidly changing technology. Misha Kahn’s virtual reality painting inside of a 3-D sculpted frame was based on his childhood claymation video Chair on an Adventure.
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