Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum announces Aldrich Video Series
Showing three solo presentations of video art by Eva Richardson McCrea, Winnie Truong, and Maya Jeffereis through out August, September and October
Aldrich Video Series
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum • 258 Main St, Ridgefield, CT 06877
August 19 – October 20, 2024
Aldrich Video Series
The The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is pleased to announce Aldrich Video Series, a sequence of three solo presentations of video art featuring Eva Richardson McCrea, Winnie Truong, and Maya Jeffereis. Each artist
exemplifies a different approach to telling stories and their distinct practices provide insights into the diverse
methods at work in contemporary video art including improvisation, animation, and archival research. Aldrich
Video Series will be on view at The Aldrich from August 19 to October 20, 2024.
Eva Richardson McCrea
August 19 to September 8, 2024
Eva Richardson McCrea stages encounters between actors who are performing scripted lines and improvising
within set guidelines. Centered around moments of deal making and financial risk, Rope and Table Games
frame the banality of high stakes transactions.
In Rope, 2022, three men eat food from takeaway containers and drink champagne in a derelict room. They
chat about holidays and hobbies, have a conversation about Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope, and discuss property
development, among other things. The scripted parts of their conversation were developed from online
reviews of Hitchcock’s Rope; the interviews and writings of Daniel Doctoroff, New York City’s economic-
development czar under Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Richard Florida’s The Rise of the Creative Class; and
quotes from Patrik Schumacher of Zaha Hadid Architects.
In Table Games, 2021, six characters are playing poker. They played for real money which the winner received
at the end of the performance. Each player was given a score of gestures, sentences, and actions that they
activate over the course of the game. Initially live-streamed, Richardson McCrea and her collaborator, Nina
Nadig, live-edited the four camera recordings over the course of the seven hours.
Eva Richardson McCrea was born in 1990 in Ireland. She currently lives and works between Berlin, Germany
and Dublin, Ireland. She is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.
Winnie Truong
September 9 to September 29, 2024
Winnie Truong’s practice spans dioramas, site-specific wall installations, animations, public art, and three-
dimensional sculptures informed by feminism, botany, science fiction, and our ecological crisis. Her
enchanting storylines combine femme anatomy with horticulture specimens of her own invention, originating a
paranormal species that emphasizes interdependence.
This presentation spotlights new and recent stop motion animations projected on loop inside two galleries: The
Trade, 2022 and Seed Vault, 2024. Truong animates her compositions with collaged cut paper elements
individually hand colored with pencil and chalk that impersonate pressed flowers. Set to a nature soundscape,
in The Trade depicts a plant-human collision as a delicate hand sprouts fleshy pink blooms under a full moon.
While Seed Vault takes its inspiration from the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which preserves over 1.2 million
seed samples from around the world. In Truong’s fantasy, a pulpy uterus-like cavity safeguards an infinitely
regenerating flora cycling through conception to maturity synched to a wistful audio track. Underscoring both
works is Truong’s visualization of an alternate futurity emptied of binaries and hierarchies that reproduces
hybrid life forces that are fluid and free.
Winnie Truong was born in 1988 in Toronto, Canada where she currently lives and works.
Maya Jeffereis
September 30 to October 20, 2024
Maya Jeffereis presents two experimental video works that investigate the oppressive and exploitive histories
of Pacific and Caribbean Islands by addressing themes of resilience, solidarity, and rematriation. Fields Fallen
from Distant Songs, 2023, is rooted in the artist’s great-grandparents’ experience as Japanese contracted
laborers on Hawaiian sugarcane plantations during the early twentieth century. The film collapses time through
the integration of archival footage of plantation workers, Jeffereis’ grandfather’s family videos from the 1960s,
and her own documentation of the eruption of Hawaiʻi’s Kīlauea volcano in 2023. Throughout the film lines of
contemporary Hawaiʻian poetry flutter across the frames, while an audio track of Japanese folk songs (holehole
bushi) drifts over the visuals. The result is both a haunting reminder of a colonial past and a hopeful tribute to
restoring relations with ancestral lands.
Taking a broadened perspective, Passages II, 2024, surveys the political and cultural implications of Western
expansion amid Island territories such as Hawaiʻi, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. Considering the
islands’ shared history of US imperialism, the film emphasizes the ocean as a unifying force, joining together a
collective legacy of resistance and understanding.
Maya Jeffereis was born in Los Angeles. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
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