Georgina Starr’s 2006 LAFVA-funded Theda will be showing in New York as part of Starr’s new solo exhibition, The Face of Another at Tracy Williams Ltd. (14 September - 27 October).

For the past 14 years, Georgina Starr has created a diverse body of work using video, film, animation, photography, music, writing and performance. She continues to explore the relationship between history and memory. Attempting to extract meaning from collapsing realities, she makes complex and obsessive investigations into invisible, lost, or fragile phenomena.

In this exhibition, Starr focuses on the nature of performing and performance in the public and private arena. After spending a year revisiting the lost film performances of silent screen actress Theda Bara, Starr began to reflect on her own performances in her work, in her ‘real’ life, and also those of her mother which absorbed her as a child growing up.

Using Kobo Abe’s 1960’s novel 'The Face of Another' as a guide, her exhibition, like Abe’s book, is divided into chapters, The Grey Room, The White Room and The Black Room.

Theda will also be screened at Anthology Film Archives in New York, where it will be accompanied by a live performance from humansacrifice quintet.

For further information visit the Tracy Williams Ltd. website.