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POEM OF ELISA LAM (2015-Present) is a solo show of video and dance works by artist Maya Gurantz that will be going up in early 2023 as Prospect Art's PRESENT WORK winner. The body of work investigates the last known physical movements, captured by elevator surveillance, of a woman hours before her death in a downtown Los Angeles hotel water tank in 2013.
The final film in the series, LAST WALK, goes from Elisa leaving the elevator to her death, entirely in her POV, shifting between memory and hallucination. It's being shot by our wonderful DP Scott Ressler. This film will go on to show in other galleries and museums, as well as film festivals.
Maya Gurantz works in video, performance, and installation. She's had solo shows at Catharine Clark Gallery (Box Blur Commission, collaborative with Ellen Sebastian Chang and Sunhui Chang), Grand Central Art Center (curated John Spiak), MCA Denver (curated Elissa Auther), Greenleaf Gallery, and group shows including MoCA Utah, LAND (Nomadic Division), Art Center College of Design, Navel LA, Angels Gate Cultural Center, Oakland Museum of California, High Desert Test Sites, Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall (curated Jane Mulfinger), Autonomie Gallery, and Movement Research at Judson Church, among others. She was the inaugural recipient of the Pieter Performance Grant for Dancemakers, and received a 2020 Artist Residency at the McColl Center for Art and Innovation.
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Ara M.
3 years ago
3 houses on a lot, unfurnished and vacant
Maya was great, it was a pleasure working with her. Would love to work with her again!
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