Keren Cytter will participated in the group exhibition, The Plot at The Power Plant in Toronto.

Artists working in film and video have long engaged questions of narration and structure, truth and fiction. The Plot brings together the work of artists who share approaches to non-linear narrative. They use structural breaks, an economy of means (or its aesthetic) and the employment of film as a stage upon which amateur actors (or their proxies) consider history, human relationships and the space created by the camera. The Plot explores film and video not only as a tract upon which scenes are enacted, broken and re-spatialized, but as a scenario, a deception and a scheme.
The Plot includes Avalanche (2011) by Keren Cytter, whose films often present characters acting out complex and alienated relationships. Her scripted work offers an instability that references direct experience and personal observation, as well as calling upon popular cultural forms (film, television, theatre, and literature). Cytter’s short scenes, repetition and use of a hand-held camera result in abstracted interactions and events.

The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery
231 Queens Quay West
Toronto, Ontario
M5J 2G8
Canada

24 September – 6 November 2011