Real violence Featured in the 78th Whitney Biennial

Installation view of the exhibition, Jordan Wilfson: Real Violence at the Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, dated 2017.

Installation view, Jordan Wolfson’s Real Violence, on view in The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2017. Photo: Bill Orcutt

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.