Rodney Graham

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen - K20
Grabbeplatz 5
February 15–May 25, 2003

Whitechapel Gallery
77 - 82 Whitechapel High Street
September 13–November 10, 2002

Marseille
July 4–October 12

Curated by Iwona Blazwick, Anthony Spira, Julian Heynen, and Nathalie Ergino

Roll up, roll up, and see backward-bicyclist Rodney Graham loop the loop in this extensive retrospective. Planned thematically rather than chronologically, the show takes a trip through nearly thirty years of work in various media—film, photography, sculpture, text-based and musical projects. And it is a trip: Proceedings start with a showing of Halcion Sleep, 1994, and end with The Phonokinetoscope, 2001, including footage of Graham dropping a tab of LSD. The Whitechapel’s Iwona Blazwick and Anthony Spira, K21’s Julian Heynen, and Marseilles MAC’s Nathalie Ergino join curatorial forces to keep things bowling along.

— Rachel Withers