BLACKOUT
Abigail Raphael Collins
- Price
- Free Admission
- Genres
- Art, Film/Video
- Season
- Winter/Spring 2025
- DATE
- MAY 22-AUG 10
- hours
- WED-SUN, 12 PM-6 PM
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About
Opening Reception: May 22 at 7 PM
Abigail Raphael Collins uses video installation and experimental nonfiction to listen to what is considered unspeakable. Her work begins from a queer, feminist perspective, exploring what is passed on through generations, outside of language: the gaps, silences, and stutters in intimate and historical dialogue. The culmination of seven years of researching, filming, and editing, BLACKOUT is an experimental documentary that unravels relationships between the film and television industry and the US military. Beginning with the artist’s father, a method actor with PTSD frequently cast in military roles, BLACKOUT threads together interviews of individuals working at the mediatized military junction: a combat videographer, a role player for military trainings, a script supervisor in the Army, and a writer for a TV show partially funded by the US military.
This exhibition is co-curated by Daniela Lieja Quintanar, Chief Curator and Deputy Director, Programs and Talia Heiman, Assistant Curator.
about the artist
Abigail Raphael Collins (b. New York) is an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles, CA. Collins was an adjunct faculty at School of Arts, California Institute for the Arts (2022–2024). Recent exhibitions and screenings have been at Union Docs, A.I.R Gallery, CAC Gallery, Johnson Museum of Art, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, and Pasadena Armory. Collins is the recipient of a New York State Council for the Arts Award, CalArts Research & Practice Fellowship Program, FCA Emergency Grant, Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship, and UCIRA grant. She is a former resident at Seoul Art Space Geumcheon and Shandaken Projects. Collins received her MFA from UCLA in 2015 and BFA from Cooper Union in 2008.
