Alex McQuilkin

Alex McQuilkin (1980, Boston) combines psychoanalysis, maudlin sentimentality, dark humor, and deep sincerity in her videos, drawings, objects, and installations, through which she explores the construction of female identity in Western culture. She describes her work as “walking a really fine line, investigating the stereotyping and damning of women not directly through a male view, but as that view has been carefully woven into the social structure and internalized in women.” Best known for her videos, in which she plays the starring role, she mines teenage and Hollywood culture to reveal the destructive effects of this stereotyping. In Fucked (2000), her breakout piece, McQuilkin presents a sex-tape, of a sort. Her face tightly framed by the camera, she applies make-up while in the midst of the experience described by the video’s title, so hyper-focused on her image that she cannot let go.

Selected works

Alex McQuilkin - Magic Moments (Technology/Transformation Wonder Woman), 2021, Single Channel Video, 2 minutes 30 seconds
The Ulterior Narrative - Installation view at TICK TACK - Alex McQuillkin
Alex McQuilkin - Fucked, 2000, Single channel video, 3 minutes
Alex McQuilkin - Magic Moments (Technology/Transformation Wonder Woman), 2021, Single Channel Video, 2 minutes 30 seconds - Installation view CINEMA TICK TACK
Alex McQuilkin - Dark Spring, 2016, Two-channel video, 6 minutes 26 seconds
Alex McQuilkin - Test Run, 2004, Single channel video, 2 minutes 35 seconds - Installation view CINEMA TICK TACK
Alex McQuilkin - Test Run, 2004, Single channel video, 2 minutes 35 seconds
Romeo and Juliet (I Wanna Be Claire Danes), 2006, Single channel video, 7 minutes 47 seconds
The Ulterior Narrative - Installation view at TICK TACK - Karin Davie, Alex McQuillkin
Alex McQuillkin - Magic Moments (Technology/Transformation Wonder Woman) - 2021 - Single channel video - 2 minutes 30 seconds - Edition of 8 + 2 AP
Alex McQuilkin - Magic Moments (Technology/Transformation Wonder Woman), 2021, Single Channel Video, 2 minutes 30 seconds - Installation view CINEMA TICK TACK
Alex McQuilkin - Fucked, 2000, Single channel video, 3 minutes - Installation view CINEMA TICK TACK
Alex McQuilkin - Fucked, 2000, Single channel video, 3 minutes - Installation view CINEMA TICK TACK
Alex McQuilkin - Dark Spring, 2016, Two-channel video, 6 minutes 26 seconds - Installation view CINEMA TICK TACK
Alex McQuilkin - Romeo and Juliet (I Wanna Be Claire Danes), 2006, Single channel video, 7 minutes 47 seconds - Installation view CINEMA TICK TACK

Exhibitions

Alex McQuilkin, Marianna Rothen, Claudia Bitran, Nadja Verena Marcin, Cindy Hinant, Jen DeNike, Sue de Beer

The Ulterior Narrative Cinema - Curated by Alex McQuilkin

29.01—19.03.2022

Michael St. John, Monsieur Zohore, Suzanne McClelland, Borna Sammak, Chris Lipomi, Karin Davie, Darja Bajagić, Matthew Tully Dugan, Alex McQuilkin

The Ulterior Narrative - Curated by Michael St. John

29.01—19.03.2022

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