The plan is to hit the gym then immediately begin drinking and thus hasten the end of this shit year. Not as ambitious as the new year plans of a Brooklyn gallery looking to fly the Palestinians to the moon. Jack the Pelican Presents-one of the 100 most influential galleries in the world-opens 2010 showing Larissa Sansour’s video A Space Exodus with her installation of Lego Storm Trooper evoking “Palistinauts.” This isn’t the gallery’s first foray into cultural diplomacy. A 2005 show Sleeping With the Enemy had gay Israeli artists Gil and Moti dating dozens of NYC Arab men and choosing one to seduce, with the idea that their tryst take place at the gallery. All to end Arab-Israeli hostilities.
Larissa Sansour at Jack the Pelican January 8 - February 7, 2010
Opening: Friday, Sept 8, 7-–9pm 487 Driggs Ave, bet N. 9 and N. 10