The Redwood and the Raven (2004) appears to be a single image of a woman in front of a redwood tree. In fact, it belongs to a sequence of 31 photographs, depicting the dancer Frances Flannery as she performs a dance called 'The Raven', which she choreographed to Edgar Allan Poe’s poem of the same name. Each day, a different image in the sequence is shown, so that the performance gradually unfolds over the course of the exhibition. Even for the repeat visitor, however, the previous stages of the dance can only be referred to as memories while looking at the present image. Trisha Donnelly has consistently played with ideas of performance in her work, exploring the territory of secrets and private rituals, the unfathomable and ambiguous.

Pawel Althamer | Cezary Bodzianowski | Ulla Von Brandenburg | Jeremy Deller | Trisha Donnelly | Geoffrey Farmer | Andrea Fraser | Dominique Gonzalez - Foerster | Jeppe Hein | Renata Lucas | Rita McBride | Roman Ondák | Markus Schinwald | Tino Sehgal | Catherine Sullivan | Mario Ybarra Jr