Paul Etienne Lincoln’s ‘Unrequited Euphoria’ is on view at Theta through January 9
Theta is showing Paul Etienne Lincoln's first solo exhibition with the gallery, reuniting the machines, film and objects from his 1982-83 mechanical work The Enigma of Marie Taglioni, at 184 Franklin Street in Tribeca through January 9, 2027.
Paul Etienne Lincoln’s ‘Unrequited Euphoria’ is on view at Theta through January 9
Theta is showing Paul Etienne Lincoln's first solo exhibition with the gallery, reuniting the machines, film and objects from his 1982-83 mechanical work The Enigma of Marie Taglioni, at 184 Franklin Street in Tribeca through January 9, 2027.
Theta opened Unrequited Euphoria – The Enigma of Marie Taglioni, Paul Etienne Lincoln’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, on Thursday, November 12, at its space at 184 Franklin Street in Tribeca. The show runs through January 9, 2027.
The show reunites the parts of The Enigma of Marie Taglioni (1982-83), a mechanical work Lincoln first performed in 1983: the machines themselves, the 16mm black-and-white film of the performance and objects left over from it.
Installation view of The Enigma of Marie Taglioni (1982-83) at Theta, 184 Franklin Street. Courtesy of Theta
The machines sit idle at Theta. Beside them, in a large glass case, is the lead box Lincoln calls the Memory Casket, shown with diagrams of how the work operates. The casket holds relics and the film, and it is built to unlock on its own only when the weather matches the conditions of the 1983 performance.
A second room holds Halibat, an earlier mechanical sculpture: a spherical frame with glands and endocrine organs exposed…
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