Renee Green: Pacing

Legacies of modernism reappraised and reconstructed in an epic project by Ren¿Green

American artist Ren¿Green (born 1959) spent two years engaged with the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, during which she presented a series of interlinked public programs and exhibitions, culminated with her major exhibition Within Living Memory (2018). Green¿s Carpenter project, Pacing, is a meditation spurred by inhabiting an architectural icon¿Le Corbusier¿s Carpenter Center¿while exploring the historical and institutional legacies of modernism¿s other forms, including cinema, visual art, poetry, music and literature.

This handsome publication illuminates Green¿s unfolding process, with a sequence of exhibitions that took place from 2015 and culminating in Pacing: Facing in Toronto; Tracing in Como, Italy; Placing in Berlin; Spacing in Lisbon; and Begin Again, Begin Again in Los Angeles. The r