“JEN”. January 9th-February 16th, 2022

CENTRAL FINE presents "JEN", Jen DeNike's first individual presentation at the gallery. The presentation includes photographs and an installation that creates a visual choreography.

On February 6th, at 6 PM, we will present 9, a new performance ballet by Jen DeNike, created in collaboration with choreographer and principal dancer of the Miami City Ballet, Rainer Krenstetter. 9 follows 'Scrying" a ballet created by DeNike and presented at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, (MoMA) and later, at the Julia Stoschek Foundation in Düsseldorf. Please RSVP - space is limited.

A ballet in 3 Acts:

9 photographic works

81 tires

6 dancers

Act 1.- Interiors

The entrance.

in between spaces invoked

no horizon

gold reflector, reflect

a bowl remains

Act 2.- Greenhouse

The greenhouse growth lab is a limbo, each photograph is a pod.

I’m growing men. Suddenly there’s no gender.

Invasion of the body snatchers.

Ecosystem and Fluidity

Amnesia

The biogenesis of JEN as a framework

grafting the pre-Raphaelite urgency to approach nature, erase genre painting,

a greenhouse revolting from the revolt to the revolt.

Suspension of nature, suspended mortality, science fiction.

Possession

Act 3.- The impossibility of Writing Fiction Today

A fallen monument built by tires, has collapsed (not destroyed)

A para monument and the politics of memory.

Geography of the body, consumption, tires, dismantle a gesture, a movement.

Creative structure, mobilization, mapping.

Historically a revolution begins with destruction, structural and transient revolutions, ruined.

Choreographed revolution, the monolith is capricious and destructive, circling

Dissent, Dissonance, Dementia.

The nines keep appearing.

CENTRAL FINE will present 9, a new performance ballet by Jen DeNike in collaboration with choreographer and principal dancer of Miami City Ballet Rainer Krenstetter. on February 6, 2022 at 5 pm Please RSVP - space is limited.

Jen DeNike’s work has been exhibited internationally at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; ; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf; MoMA PS1; The Brooklyn Museum; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm; Participant Inc; 54th Venice Biennale; Garage Projects, Moscow; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville; Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai; MOCA Toronto; MACRO ROMA; Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart; The Bronx Museum, New York; Miami Light Projects; Red Line Contemporary Art Center, Denver; CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale-On-Hudson; MEF Museo Ettore Fico, Torino; Schauspiel Köln Opera House; Art Basel Miami Art Public; Art Basel Miami Film Sector; and at the Wallis Annenberg Center For the Performing Arts, Los Angeles.

Selected commissioned projects include Bombay Beach Biennale, EMPAC, LAND Los Angeles Nomadic Division, Creative Time; Performa Biennial and Faena Art. This is Jen DeNike’s first presentation at CENTRAL FINE.

Her work is held in the permanent public collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin-Düsseldorf; among others