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An archival newspaper clipping of an ad placed by a real estate firm advertising the new development Coral Gardens.

Coral Gardens

Ilana Harris-Babou

On View: October 25

This Video Viewing Room features a new multimedia work by Ilana Harris-Babou, Coral Gardens (2021), which brings together video, archival documents, and contemporary correspondence.

This presentation is organized by Alison Burstein, Curator, Media and Engagement.

Ads and excerpt from Brooklyn Eagle (1925–1926). Courtesy of the artist.
Ilana Harris-Babou, “Coral Gardens” (2021), part 2
Ads and excerpt from Brooklyn Eagle (1925–1926). Courtesy of the artist.
Ilana Harris-Babou, “Coral Gardens” (2021), part 4
Found letters. Courtesy of the artist.
Ilana Harris-Babou, “Coral Gardens” (2021), part 6
Found letters. Courtesy of the artist.
Found letters. Courtesy of the artist.
Ilana Harris-Babou, “Coral Gardens” (2021), part 9
Ads and excerpt from Brooklyn Eagle (1925–1926). Courtesy of the artist.
Ilana Harris-Babou, “Coral Gardens” (2021), part 11
Found letters. Courtesy of the artist.

Bio

Ilana Harris-Babou creates interdisciplinary work, spanning sculpture and installation, and grounded in video. She has exhibited throughout the U.S. and Europe, with solo exhibitions at Kunsthaus Hamburg (Germany), University of Tennessee Chattanooga, and The Museum of Arts & Design, Larrie, 80 WSE, and HESSE FLATOW in New York. Other venues include The Whitney Museum of Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Queens Museum, SculptureCenter, Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Denmark), La Casa Encendida (Spain), and West Space (Melbourne), among others. She holds an MFA in Visual Art from Columbia University and a BA in Art from Yale University.

Coral Gardens is an adaptation of Harris-Babou’s work Fine Lines (2020), which was first presented at Queens Museum in fall 2020 in the exhibition After the Plaster Foundation, organized by Larissa Harris with Sophia Marisa Lucas.

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