Chantal Akerman / Carey Young

Chantal Akerman: Moving Through Time and Space

Born in Belgium and living in Paris, Chantal Akerman is widely recognized as one of the most important directors in film history. Including a newly commissioned installation, Moving Through Time and Space spans more than two decades of her career, opening a window on to the shifting frames between fact and fiction. Exploring the politics of territorial borders, recent histories of racism, and the poetics of personal journeys, Akerman's works touch on ideas about image, gaze, space, performance, and narration.

Chantal Akerman: Moving Through Time and Space is a collaborative effort of four institutions: Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston; the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge; Miami Art Museum (a MAC@MAM presentation); and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.

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Carey Young: Speech Acts

For her first solo exhibition in an American museum, British artist Carey Young launches a series of "call center art works," which connect visitors with live telephone operators taking calls from a customer service center headquartered in Saint Louis. Investigating the links between art and globalized commerce as well as the legacies of Conceptual Art, Young challenges our assumptions about how we each interact with our social, commercial, cultural, and legal institutions. At the Contemporary, Young presents an innovative exhibition that contemplates the conditions of site-specificity, language, and our own capacity to communicate in the world.

Carey Young: Speech Acts is organized by the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.

Chantal Akerman: Moving Through Time and Space
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Carey Young: Speech Acts