ISSUES

In April of 2015, ISSUES presented CENTER JENNY, the video work by American artist duo Ryan Trecartin & Lizzie Fitch at Media Markt’s flagship store in Gallerian in Stockholm. It was screened simultaneously on all one hundred and ninety-six television sets for sale at the home electronics department store. It was free and open to the public during the store's opening hours as well as a special evening event.

CENTER JENNY premiered at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013, curated by Massimiliano Gioni. It was shown along the videos, Comma Boat and Junior Wars, in five different sculptural theatres. In the "movie", as the artists like to call their work, we meet a large number of characters, many of them called Jenny, perhaps as a collectively created personality named Center Jenny.

- I think we’re living in a time when you can use more than just words and how they’re strung together to express an idea. Because of the way people read, share and merge information now, the way something is contained and frames is just as valuable as the content inside, says Ryan Trecartin.

Special thanks to Anna Uddenberg.

RYAN TRECARTIN b. 1981 in Webster, Texas, USA. Lives and works in Athens, Ohio.

LIZZIE FITCH b. 1981 Bloomington, Indiana, USA. Lives and works in Athens, Ohio.

Trecartin and Fitch were mentioned as the most consequent artist to appear on the international art scene since the 1980’s. Since graduating from Rhode Island School of Design in 2004, Trecartin & Fitch's work has been shown extensively. The 2006 Whitney Biennial and New Museum’s 2009 survey Younger Than Jesus to name two early presentations. they took part in the 55th Venice Biennale 2013 and 2014 saw their first major solo survey in a European institution, Site Visit at Kunstwerke Berlin. In 2015 they returned to the New Museum but as a curator of the triennial titled Surround Audience.