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Jill Magid: Faust 24 at Galeria Labor, Mexico City

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Channel: VernissageTV · 2012 · Education

The exhibition Faust 24 at Galería Labor is American artist Jill Magid's first solo exhibition in Mexico. Faust 24 deals with the gun violence and public shootings in the US, specifically with the school shooting at the University of Texas in Austin in 2010, where a student, Colton Tooley, walked through the campus firing shots into the air and ground with an AK47 assault rifle, and finally committed suicide.

Jill Magid's exhibition at Galería Labor presents Police footage of the event and related 911 calls. In addition, Magid wrote a dramatic text, based on her transcription of the material. This book, titled Tooley, A Tragedy, is shown alongside Goethe's drama, Faust. Both texts are open to page 24, where suicide is either confirmed or imminent.

Jill Magid was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut in 1973. She lives and works in New York. Magid received her Master of Science in Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. The artist has exhibited in various institutions including Stedelijk, Amsterdam (2005), Gagosian Gallery, New York (2007), Tate Modern, London (2009), and Yvon Lambert, Paris (2012).

Jill Magid: Faust 24 at Galería Labor, Mexico City. November 17, 2012. Video by Diego García Sotomoro.

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Jill Magid: Faust 24 at Galeria Labor, Mexico City

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