We Are Ghosts: Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley

by Lauren Barnes, Andrea Nixon, Christopher Bedford

"The exhibition includes two films featuring their signature black-and-white sets and costumes. "This is Offal" (2016) is inspired by Thomas Hood's 1844 poem, The Bridge of Sighs, in which the narrator, a forensic pathologist, laments the suicide of a young woman whose body is pulled from the Thames. The Kelleys' new film, "In the Body of the Sturgeon," brings a feminist perspective to an exploration of life on a submarine stationed in the Pacific at the end of World War II, with the USS Torsk docked in Baltimore's Inner Harbor inspiring the mise-en-scène. The exhibition also includes six light boxes featuring characters from both films and elements from the Kelleys' sculptural sets."-- Baltimore Museum of Art website (viewed on April 30, 2018)

123 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2017