Meet ICP at Metrograph this summer for film screenings inspired by our exhibition Love Songs: Photography and Intimacy. Metrograph presents a collection of films that explore myriad forms of tender attachment, from romantic ardour to filial devotion. Running for four months, in tandem with Love Songs at ICP, the series begins with exhibiting artist Leigh Ledare’s audacious and often very funny experiment in filmed self-analysis, The Task, both in theater and At Home. Following the screening at 7 Ludlow Ledare will participate in a Director’s Q&A.
Want to take in the exhibition and a movie? Show your "Love Songs" x Metrograph movie ticket at ICP for reduced admission to visit the exhibition.
ICP and Metrograph members receive access to Metrograph’s At Home platform with offers exclusive, live streaming films and premieres, special introductions and conversations with your favorite filmmakers.
More dates and films to be announced.
About The Task
Inspired by an experimental social psychology technique developed at London’s Tavistock Institute in the 1950s, Leigh Ledare invited 28 different Chicagoans from all walks of life and 10 psychologists trained in the method to participate in a three-day Group Relations conference, in which the group would be filmed while engaged in the task of studying themselves and their own interpersonal dynamics. An audacious and often very funny experiment in filmed self-analysis.
Q&A with director Leigh Ledare to follow.
About Metrograph
Located two blocks from ICP, Metrograph is the ultimate destination for movie lovers. A special curated world of cinema inspired by the great New York movie theaters of the 1920s and the Commissaries of the Hollywood Studio backlots, Metrograph is a community inhabited by movie professionals screening their work, taking meetings, watching films, collaborating together — an audience built around our shared love of cinema.
Leigh Ledare creates work that raises questions of agency, intimacy and consent, transforming the observer into the voyeur of private scenes or situations dealing with social taboos. Using photography, the archive, language, and film, he explores notions of subjectivity in a performative dimension, his interventions putting in tension the realities of social constructions and the projective assumptions that surround them. Ledare’s projects have been exhibited extensively in the US and abroad. Recent exhibitions include: The Plot, The Art Institute of Chicago (2017); Vokzal, The Box, Los Angeles (2017); Place du Jardin aux Fleurs, Office Baroque, Brussels, as well as numerous group exhibitions including the 2017 Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Manifesta 11, Zurich (2016). Ledare's work has also been the subject of major surveys at Charlottenborg Kunsthal, Copenhagen (2013), and WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels (2012). Publications by Ledare include: Double Bind Conversations (Art Resources Press, 2015), a book length dialog co-authored with Rhea Anastas; Ana and Carl and some other couples (Andrew Roth, 2014), a collaboration with Nicolas Guagnini; Leigh Ledare, et al. (Mousse Publishing, 2012), edited by Elena Filipovic; An Invitation (Leroy Neiman Center for Print Studies, Columbia University, 2012), a photolithography edition; Double Bind (a three volume multiple published by MFC-michèle didier, 2012); and Pretend You’re Actually Alive (PPP Editions/Andrew Roth, 2008). Ledare’s work is in the public collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; The Centre Pompidou, Paris; and Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland. In 2017 Ledare was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.
