Evidentiary Bodies, 2018, 9:30 min, color, sound, three-channel HD video, still.

Barbara Hammer’s critically acclaimed, three-channel installation Evidentiary Bodies presents its audience with a rather personal portrait that explores the landscape of the artist’s body and mind through carefully crafted performance and self-reflexive imagery that draws out themes of cancer, mortality, longing, love and loss. An audio-visually rich, moving-image-triptych, Evidentiary Bodies envelops its audience and asks them to breathe deeply with the artist. Hammer’s first and only multi-channel installation is a hauntingly beautiful piece inside and out, and is not to be missed. As Hammer herself put it, “This could be empathy.”

To reserve a timeslot to visit, please send an email to info@buffalofilm.org with “Barbara Hammer: Evidentiary Bodies” in the subject line, and with your first/last name and desired date/time in the body of the email. Visits are organized every hour on the hour, and participants can stay up to 40 minutes to enjoy multiple, consecutive viewings. Due to Covid restrictions at the gallery, masks are required, and no more than one party (up to 5 ppl) will be allowed a reservation at a time.