Garrett Bradley – Revolutions

Exhibition

The exhibition invites visitors into her world: a rich blend of engagement and artistic experimentation, in which she critically examines (film) history and image-making from a contemporary perspective. In 2023, Bradley was awarded the Eye Art & Film Prize.

Garrett Bradley

Garrett Bradley explores how images help shape our view of the world. She is particularly interested in the ways America is represented through visual culture. Spanning narrative, documentary, and experimental forms of filmmaking, this exhibition reflects the artist’s turn towards abstraction and the increasingly sculptural nature of her work.

Pitfalls

Bradley invites us to take a step back and consider the following question: what are we actually looking at? In doing so, she makes the viewer aware of the pitfalls of representation and unpacks the mechanisms that influence how we perceive ourselves and others.

Bregtje van der Haak, director Eye Filmmuseum: “Garrett Bradley creates courageous, visually compelling work, which takes on themes including racism and exclusion with exceptional energy. Her work takes shape through a blend of diverse archival media. Her (documentary) films and installations refer to topics including the history of American citizens, the struggle for social justice and the political history of the United States, and make in-depth explorations of human emotions such as rage and sorrow.”

Films, talks and events

The accompanying film programme will feature nearly all of Bradley’s work, including the Oscar-nominated documentary Time (2020), and her award-winning short film Alone (2017). Several Eye on Art specials will place Bradley’s oeuvre in context. Finally, films that have inspired her work will also be screened.