Miles Greenberg Rehearses Myths for the Future
Miles Greenberg presents a solo exhibition at the Current in Stowe, Vermont, featuring two multi-channel video installations exploring ritualistic performance and human wildness. TЯUTH, a 15-minute three-screen work distilled from a seven-hour 2023 durational performance at Powerhouse Arts in Brooklyn, depicts Black performers entirely coated in black oil engaging in elaborately choreographed sword combat with dulled steel blades. The performers’ skin coating, dark contact lenses, and ritualistic engagement evoke an otherworldly aesthetic drawing parallels to Nietzschean philosophy regarding humanity’s original chaotic nature versus societal domestication. LE MIROIR, a six-channel video installation arranged in circular formation, combines footage from a 2025 performance at El Badi Palace in Marrakesh during the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair with desert imagery from the Emirati-Omani border. Both works position Black bodies as protagonists of universal mythological narratives while invoking themes of bodily autonomy, ritualism, and the inestimable human spirit through formal video installation and live performance documentation.
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