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Jennifer Reeder: Nevermind

Women in front of solid grey background, brown hair with hand on right ear and mouth open

March 1 – May 11, 2025

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 1 from 7 – 10PM

Nevermind is a non-narrative post-punk aria, one in Jennifer Reeder’s three-part video series significantly inspired by Steina and Woody Vasulka’s Let it Be (video, 1970). This project is about the manifestation of gender and rebellion in media culture. It threatens the power of the hero in Rock music and features the artist lip-syncing to Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit.

ABOUT THE ARTIST 

Bong Joon Ho recently named Jennifer Reeder, “a filmmaker to watch in the 2020s.” She constructs nuanced genre films about relationships, trauma, and coping that borrows from various forms, including after-school specials and amateur music videos, and could be classified as NOIR CAMP. These films have been screened and exhibited at festivals and museums worldwide, including Sundance, Berlin, Rotterdam, SXSW, Tribeca, BFI-LFF, The Whitney Biennial, and the Venice Biennale. She received the 2024 Tour De Force Award from the Chicago International Film Festival.