Shelly Silver: Girls / Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

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• Date Tuesday, April 11, 2023 - Sunday, July 30, 2023
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The Cleveland Museum of Art is renowned for the quality and breadth of its collection, which includes almost 45,000 objects and spans 6,000 years of achievement in the arts. Having recently completed an ambitious, multi-phase renovation and expansion project across... more

Girls / Museum explores the collection of the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig in Germany from the perspective of a group of girls aged 7 to 19. The guides interpret various depictions of women, including mothers, muses, sex workers, and religious figures, all created by male artists. The film also questions the practice of museum display itself, drawing attention to the constructed nature of museum collections. Shelly Silver’s video converges contemporary and historical frameworks, encouraging the viewer to investigate the lens through which we examine art today.

Still from Girls / Museum (detail), 2020. Shelly Silver (American, b. 1957). High-definition video, color, sound; 71 min. Courtesy of Shelly Silver and Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York