Hirshhorn Museum – The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image

‘The cinema, its technology (including later offshoots like television and the internet) and its vocabulary have permeated contemporary culture to the extent that the very boundaries between “real life” and make-believe are often indistinct – sometimes even indecipherable. “The Cinema Effect” is a two-part exhibition that focuses on contemporary works of art and the ways in which they adapt, challenge or reflect the influence of cinema and its blurring of definitions of fact and fiction. Both exhibitions include film and media installations by a range of international artists including Omar Fast, Gary Hill, Isaac Julien, Steve McQueen, Tony Oursler, Runa Islam and Kelly Richardson, among others.’Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, USA