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Kehinde Wiley: Smile

Jan 13, 2012 – Feb 25, 2012

Kehinde Wiley Smile (stiill), 2001/2016

Wiley’s Smile, a video created while a student at Yale University, challenges four men, each in a separate quadrant of the screen, to smile directly into the camera’s lens for one full hour. As the minutes pass, the smile gradually contorts; the “smile” muscles spasm and each model’s performance becomes a strenuous test of endurance.

Smile is being screened as part of the UMOCA ongoing video series, Looped.

Smile Kehinde Wiley, 2001, 1 hour 30 minutes looped Digital Video Courtesy of the artist and Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA Kehinde