Ryan Trecartin: Re’Search Wait’S - NGV

Overview

There’s a lot of hype surrounded Ryan Trecartin in the art world these days; the young American artist who's installations and video projects have many curious and enthralled. So it's pretty exciting stuff that the NGV has snapped up Trecartin’s work for their latest exhibition Re’Search Wait’S.

The NGV has also acquired Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch’s collaborative 2011 piece Available sync — now showing as part of Transmission: Legacies of the Television Age at NGV. The pair first met when they began studying together at Rhode Island School of Design in 2001. The rest, as they say, is history.

Re’Search Wait’S will be comprised of four film works: Ready, The Re’Search, Roamie View : History Enhancement and Temp Stop. Together they form an immersive and cutting essay on consumerism and identity. The films contain multi-linear narratives, where the characters endure having every action studied. This exhibition is a wonderful chance to see an exciting, hyped-up young artist reflect on our world today, make time for it.