Sara Cwynar in Brooklyn Rail

December 11, 2024

Sara Cwynar with Chloe Stagaman

By Chloe Stagaman

Sara Cwynar is interested in how photographs travel, assemble, and evolve—through time as much as through a glowing screen. In recent years, her colorful and abundant films, photographs, collages, installations, and performances have looked to our image-driven world to raise questions about systems of power and control, including what they disregard. Her current exhibition, Baby Blue Benzo, centers unattainable desire: that drug-like haze of possibility seducing the mind while convincing the body to stay at work. A model walks on an emerald treadmill. A version of the world’s most expensive racecar sits in a museum in Germany. A figure skating Cwynar spins dizzyingly at the center of an ice rink. “Everything is moving forward as planned,” states the new film’s narrator, yet somehow forward—in the film as much as in life under late-stage capitalism—means moving to stay in place.

To read the full interview visit Brooklyn Rail.

For more information about Sara Cwynar please contact the gallery:

info@coopercolegallery.com

+1.416.531.8000

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