Alex Prager debuts a new film in her upcoming exhibition Part Two: Run, on view at our New York gallery January 19–March 4. Featuring musical compositions by Ellen Reid and Philip Glass and starring Katherine Waterston, the film deploys cinematic archetypes and absurdist humor as it examines human resilience in the face of catastrophe. The New York show will also feature photographs and sculptures that relate to the film and further complicate and enrich its fundamental concerns. Across her practice, @AlexPrager crafts rich, often ambiguous narratives that examine the cultural mythologies and archetypes that shape collective existence. As she deploys and deconstructs artistic and narrative conventions, Prager explores how both our senses of self and our engagement with others are often mediated by familiar stories and tropes. Occupying a tenuous relationship to time and place, the artist’s carefully choreographed figures remain suspended between the past and the present, and Prager gestures to a collective will to exist that not only transcends our immediate circumstances but persists despite them. Alex Prager, Sleep, 2022. Archival pigment print, 40 x 77.4 inches (101.6 x 196.6 cm). Courtesy Alex Prager Studio The exhibition is supported by @WePresent, WeTransfer’s digital arts platform. Additional support is provided by Arts & Sciences and Lavazza Calendar 2023. #AlexPrager #LehmannMaupin