The Feldman Gallery will exhibit a new series of 9 large-scale painterly photographs by Eleanor Antin. In Helen’s Odyssey, Antin depicts imagined scenes from the life of Helen of Troy, or, as it turns out, the two Helens. In the artist’s attempt to track her, Antin has discovered two Helens—a lyrical blonde Helen responding to the pleasures of desire and a demonic dark Helen who vents her rage on her admiring victimizers. This series of imagined scenes is presented as a set of archeological retrievals of Helen’s historically fragmented life and is an attempt to hear Helen of Troy speak.

Eleanor Antin, The Tourists, 2007, c-print, 60×76 inches

Eleanor Antin, Plaisir D’Amour (after Couture), 2007, c-print, 60×91 inches