Monte Horizonte

Exhibition DARA BIRNBAUM: THE DARK MATTER OF MEDIA LIGHT -  Now until July 2010. Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art presents, in co-production with SMAK – Gent, the exhibition The Dark Matter of Media Light, by the American artist Dara Birnbaum (New York, 1946). Birnbaum’s provocative video works are among the most influential and innovative contributions to the building of a relationship between art and television. Birnbaum started making art that was politically and critically relevant in the mid1970s. Since then she has been provoking a strong inquiry as to the way we look at political events and how we are influenced and manipulated by images, television and the media in general. Covering more than 30 years and bringing together both early and recent works, this retrospective is a unique opportunity to get acquainted with one of the most important works of our time.