Tina Keane's Escalator Restored for Berlin Group Show
A restored version of Tina Keane's 1988 video installation Escalator is on view in Berlin as part of the group exhibition Demolition/Escape, which also includes new works by Hilary Lloyd and James Richards. The exhibition explores movement, risk, and inversion through video and sound. Escalator, shown for the first time in over thirty years, features eleven pairs of stacked monitors: left screens depict suited workers ascending into a glass-and-steel world, while right screens show homeless individuals in underground stations. The looping ascent and descent create a suspended, repetitive temporality without resolution.
Key facts
- Tina Keane's Escalator (1988) has been fully restored.
- Escalator is exhibited for the first time in over thirty years.
- The exhibition Demolition/Escape is held in Berlin.
- The group show includes newly commissioned works by Hilary Lloyd and James Richards.
- Escalator uses eleven pairs of stacked monitors.
- Left screens show suited city workers ascending into a glass-and-steel world.
- Right screens show homeless individuals occupying underground stations.
- The work produces a suspended, repetitive temporality through looping ascent and descent.
Entities
Artists
- Tina Keane
- Hilary Lloyd
- James Richards
Locations
- Berlin
- Germany