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Alexandra Grant Photography Comes as Shadows to ACME.

By: Lor Dethal

Many would love some private time and a photo shoot session with the famous actor Keanu Reeves. An artist to

have such a privilege is Alexandra Grant, who has worked with Mr. Reeves in the past. Their current

collaboration, including the Lapis Press and Steidl Publishing, has produced a number of images based on

Reeves¡¯ shadow, exploring it as a metaphor and phenomena. The solo exhibition named Shadows includes a

book printed by Steidl, as well as a set of new photographs that might allude to shadow art, although shadow

itself is the central figure in her work. Grant¡¯s photographs accompanied by texts written by Reeves are to be

exhibited in a month long exhibition at ACME in Los Angeles, starting in February 2016.

Translating the Language of Medium

Born in 1973 in Fairview Park, Ohio, Alexandra Grant is a Los Angeles-based artist who uses language as a basis

for her sculptures, paintings, drawings and videos. Exploring the idea of translating text not only between

languages but between mediums like image and written word, Grant fuels her work with questions like: How do

we ¡°read¡± and ¡°write¡± images? How does language place us? Using literature and exchanges with writers and

philosophers to support her work, she has collaborated with H¨¦l¨¨ne Cixous, hyptertext pioneer Michael Joyce,

and actor and writer Keanu Reeves, in order to deliver some amazing art pieces. She has been the subject of

shows at the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles, the Los

Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and galleries in the US and abroad. In early 2011 the Ode to

Happiness was published, making it Grant¡¯s first artist book and Reeves¡¯ first book as a writer.

The Shadow of Keanu Reeves

The latest series of works by Alexandra Grant includes a number of photographs of the shadow of Keanu Reeves,

capturing mysterious silhouettes in various poses and motion. The artist then reverses the light and dark surfaces,

making the shadow itself the source of light, giving it substance and an x-ray effect. The images are printed on a

large scale velour paper and featured in a sequence, giving the whole exhibition a cinematic connotation, and a

certain flow reminding of a visual language. In addition to these, the Shadows project also includes a suite of

smaller scale limited edition color prints, as well as a book compromised of Grant¡¯s photographs and texts written

by Reeves.

Left: Alexandra Grant ¨C Shadow(5) You Are Not Here Not Even, 2016 / Right: Alexandra Grant ¨C Shadow(8) Up

Against It Look Out

Alexandra Grant Exhibition at ACME in Los Angeles

Known as a ¡°radical collaborator,¡± Alexandra Grant works with Keanu Reeves to present shadow as a central

figure, making a light source out of obstruction of light. With haunting traces of a human character conveying the

energy in images, the exhibition as a whole portrays a connection between the frames creating a single language.

The solo exhibition of Alexandra Grant under the name of Shadows opens at ACME gallery in Los Angeles on

February 13th, and will be on view until March 12th, 2016. Book signing with Grant and Reeves will be held at the

gallery during the exhibition, and the reception for the artist will be held on Saturday, February 20th, from 6-8PM.

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