ECLIPSED: A Film by Julie Grosche
September 7–22, 2023
Opening screenings: 6:45 & 7:30pm on Thursday, September 7
VCUarts and The Anderson are pleased to present a film by Julie Grosche (Adjunct Faculty Member, Kinetic Imaging) in the black box gallery on the bottom floor. Using humor, cynicism, spoken words, dance, and singing, Eclipsed (video, 40:00 minutes) is about the invisible labor, pain, and transformation that motherhood provokes in women. Taken from a memoir the artist wrote about motherhood, seven texts are interpreted in different situations by different actresses, turning it into a fictional documentary.
Julie Grosche lives and works between the US and France and is a graduate from ENSA Dijon. Her video work convenes group dynamics where individuals ask existential questions. Chants and mantras exult as the only technology that connects characters who demand a revision of the power structure. Her work has appeared internationally, most recently she has shown at Mery Gates, Brooklyn, NY; Villa du Parc, Annemasse; Like a little disaster, Italy; Ditch Projects, Eugene, OR; Galerie Escougnou Cetraro, Paris; Favorite Goods, Los Angeles, CA; Emerson-Dorsch, Miami, FL; L’Atelier KSR, Berlin, Germany; Era VI VII VI, New York, NY; SPACES, Cleveland, OH. She co-founded PMgalerie in Berlin, Bcc an itinerant curatorial platform and ASMBLY a school prototype.
Following the opening screenings on the night of September 7th, Eclipsed will be playing on a loop during The Anderson’s open hours (Tues–Fri 12–6pm, Sat 12–5pm) through September 22nd.