The first and most obvious of these maps is screen culture, but history is another map against which the artist duo’s epic new body of work Whether Line at the Fondazione Prada in Milan is set. Starring Trecartin’s family and friends, and the artist himself in a plethora of outrageous roles, A Family Finds Entertainment chronicles the story of mixed up teenager Skippy and his adventures in ‘coming out’.
Photography by Fitch and Trecartin Studio. Photography by Fitch and Trecartin Studio.
Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch’s Whether Line (2019) – the Ohio-based artist duo’s latest multimedia installation – begins with a long queue canopied by wire mesh. Ryan Trecartin’s film A Family Finds Entertainment is a camp extravaganza of epic proportions. FRAGMENTS OF AMERICA Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin: a conversation from home.
Publisher Prada Arte.
Commissioned by Fondazione Prada, Whether Line, the large-scale multimedia installation conceived by long-time collaborators Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin, investigates the perpetual promise of ‘new’ terrain and the inherent instability of territorial appropriation. It represents the first output of a creative process begun in late 2016, aimed at realizing a new movie that investigates the […] Whether Line is the new exhibition conceived by Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin commissioned by Fondazione Prada for its Milan venue. ISBN 9788887029758. For Trecartin and Fitch, relocating from Los Angeles, where they had lived since 2010, marked a return home: Both grew up in small-town Ohio—Trecartin, in Massillon … With Whether Line, Fitch and Trecartin set out to investigate back-to-land ideologies that have flourished particularly in America in recent Trump years. Commissioned by Fondazione Prada for its Milan venue, "Whether Line", the large-scale multimedia installation, conceived by Lizzie Fitch (USA, 1981) and Ryan Trecartin (USA, 1981), represents the first output of a creative process begun in late 2016, investigating the perpetual promise of "new" terrain and the inherent instability of territorial appropriation. Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin at "Lizzie Fitch | Ryan Trecartin: Whether Line" at Fondazione Prada, 2019. Whether Line - Lizzie Fitch | Ryan Trecartin . Courtesy of Fondazione Prada, Milan / … Review of Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin’s ‘Whether Line’ at Fondazione Prada, which features the Amish and disillusioned tech workers. FONDAZIONE PRADA PRESENTS “WHETHER LINE”, A NEW EXHIBITION PROJECT BY LIZZIE FITCH AND RYAN TRECARTIN, IN MILAN FROM 6 APRIL TO 5 AUGUST 2019 Milan, 20 December 2018 - Fondazione Prada will present “Whether Line”, a new exhibition project conceived by Lizzie Fitch (USA, 1981) and Ryan Trecartin (USA, 1981), in its Milan Photo: Andrea Rossetti, courtesy Fondazione Prada. Editor: Chiara Costa; Associate Editor: Mario Mainetti Foreword by Miuccia Prada and Patrizio Bertelli; Conversation with Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin by Mario Mainetti; essays by Philip Auslander, Adrienne Edwards, Ed Halter, Roxana Marcoci, Francesco Spampinato; timeline 2000-2019 by Eva Fabbris. The new multimedia "Whether Line" show from L.A.-based artists Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin imagines a haunted rural film set. Through a series of more or less connected scenes, the video unfolds as a nightmarish (and seemingly never-ending!) Courtesy of Fondazione Prada, Milan / Venice. Film still. Commissioned by Fondazione Prada, the large-scale multimedia installation “Whether Line”, a new exhibition project conceived by Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin for its Milan venue, is held until the 5th of August 2019. Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin, “Whether Line.” Exhibition view at Fondazione Prada, Milan, 2019. The press preview will … Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin, “Whether Line.” Exhibition view at Fondazione Prada, Milan, 2019. FONDAZIONE PRADA PRESENTS “WHETHER LINE”, A NEW EXHIBITION PROJECT BY LIZZIE FITCH AND RYAN TRECARTIN, IN MILAN FROM 6 APRIL TO 5 AUGUST 2019 Milan, 20 December 2018 - Fondazione Prada will present “Whether Line”, a new exhibition project conceived by Lizzie Fitch (USA, 1981) and Ryan Trecartin (USA, 1981), in its Milan venue from 6 April to 5 August 2019. Film still.
Commissioned by Fondazione Prada, their large-scale multimedia installation, conceived by Lizzie Fitch (U.S.A., 1981) and Ryan Trecartin (U.S.A., 1981), represents the first output of a creative process begun in late 2016, investigating the perpetual promise of “new” terrain and the inherent instability of territorial appropriation.
Exploring the notion of borders and boundaries, this large-scale multimedia installation the first output of a creative process begun in late 2016. Taking the idealized rurality endemic to back-to-the-land ideologies as a conceptual starting point, the project represents both a return and an escape.