DCA is proud to present this exhibition which has been curated by Lynne Cooke, Chief Curator at Dia Center for the Arts in New York.

Ellipsis features photography, film and video from the 1970s and the early 1980s by Chantal Akerman, Lili Dujourie and Francesca Woodman. This is the first joint exhibition of their work.

Lynne Cooke writes:
Although born ten years apart and in very different circumstances, the three artists featured in this exhibition each profited from the turn to still photography, and other lens-based technologies - film, slide projection and the newer medium of video that dominated vanguard art practice in the late 1960s.
Taking themselves, their bodies and their immediate circumstances as their point of departure, during the 1970s all three made performative work for the camera. Tellingly, the sites they favoured were mostly their own studios or domestic interiors.

DCA is the only British venue for this prestigious exhibition. Ellipsis premiered at Museo Tamayo in Mexico City in October 2007 and Lund Konsthall in February 2008.

The illustrated catalogue with new essays by Lynne Cooke and Jan Avgikos and a foreword by DCA's Head of Programme, Judith Winter is available to buy at DCA.

Please be aware that some of the works in this exhibition contain images which are inappropriate for children.