2017
March 17–June 11, 2017
Jordan Wolfson's virtual reality work Real violence (2017) was presented for the first time in the 2017 Whitney Biennial curated by Mia Locks and Christopher Lew.
Wolfson pulls intuitively from contemporary technology, advertising, and digital culture to produce ambitious and enigmatic narratives that often feature animated characters. Real violence reflects the artist's interest in states of interaction between the viewer and the work, in particular as they are activated by the gaze.
This was the 78th edition of the biennial and the first to be held at the Whitney Museum building on Gansevoort Street in lower Manhattan.