Screening & Q+A: Agnès Varda’s Cléo from 5 to 7

Join us for a screening of Agnès Varda's Cleo from 5 to 7 (89 min, 1962, France), followed by an audience Q+A. Session artist E. Jane will introduce the film by focusing on its depiction of the Diva as a feminine archetype, Varda’s broad depiction of women across various films, and E. Jane's extended work surrounding the diva.

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer (Corinne Marchand) set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina. Watch the Trailer

This event is in conjunction with artist E. Jane's project part of Recess’s program, Session, which invites artists to use Recess’s public platform to combine productive studio space with dynamic exhibition opportunities. Sessions remain open to the public from the first day of the artist's project through the last, encouraging sustained dialogue between artists and audiences. Due to the process-based nature of Session, projects undergo constant revision and the above proposal is subject to change.

E. Jane is a multidisciplinary artist and musician. Their practice includes images, videos, performances, installations, and sound. They are interested in the future of Blackness and queerness, and the interiority, perspectives, and labor of Black women and femmes, exploring how they navigate networked culture and surveillance through digital archives.
Jane has developed the persona MHYSA, a queer underground popstar performing sometimes in their installations and worldwide. This Gesamtkunstwerk project engages Black music culture and divadom through embodiment.
E. Jane (b. 1990, Bethesda) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. They have an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. They have participated in the Studio Museum's Artist-in-Residence Program (2019-2020), and (as a part of SCRAAATCH) the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2022) and Bemis Center Artist-in-Residence Program (2023). Jane is also the author of the NOPE Manifesto, published in 2016. They were awarded the Wynn Newhouse Award (2017) and an FCA Emergency Grant (2022). Recent solo shows include Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2023), The Kitchen, New York (2022), OCD Chinatown, New York (2021), Glasgow International, Glasgow (2018) and American Medium, New York (2017).
Group shows include Kai Matsumiya, New York (2023), Progetto, Lecee (2023), Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2022), The Green Gallery, Milwaukee (2022), The Swiss Institute, New York (2022), EFA Project Spaces, New York (2021), Company Gallery, New York (2020), MoCADA, New York (2020) MoMA PS1 (2020), Anonymous Gallery, New York (2020) Shoot the Lobster (2019), American Medium (2018), Glasgow International, Glasgow (2018), Museum Of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago (2018), Gallery 400, Chicago (2017), Dawid Radziszewski Gallery, Warsaw (2017) IMT Gallery, London (2016), Edel Assanti, London (2016) and Visual Arts Center at University of Texas, Austin (2016)

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Recess, 46 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, United States