Ann Oren: The Supreme Spasm

September 10 – October 16, 2016

Installation image from the 2016 Ann Oren exhibition, The Supreme Spasm, at Cindy Rucker Gallery

Ann Oren exhibition, The Supreme Spasm, at Cindy Rucker Gallery

Cindy Rucker Gallery is pleased to present The Supreme Spasm, a four-channel video installation by Ann Oren. The work is a contemporary adaptation of Pierrot assassin de sa femme (“Pierrot, murderer of his wife”) a play by Mallarmé’s cousin Paul Margueritte. In this play, the foolish mime character has become a modern neurotic man who has killed his wife, Colombine, by tickling her to death. After her demise, her spirit enters him and tickles him until he consequently dies.