NEIL BELOUFA'S KEMPINSKI Curated by Jarrett Gregory July 31st - August 5th, 2008 Opening Reception: Thursday July 31st, 6-8pm White Box - 525 West 26th Street New York White Box is pleased to announce Week 4 of the Six Feet Under summer series: Kempinski.  This exhibition brings together objects and science fiction videos by French-Algerian artist Neil Beloufa.  Shot in Mali and the United States, Beloufa's films explore future as well as contemporary mysteries, including the relationship between "crop circles," attributed to extraterrestrials, and Land art. Quoting from open sources such as Wikipedia, the artist confronts the possibility that the existence of information does not authenticate occurrences.    Beloufa's work creates a sense of vertigo and unease that is redolent of the distrust and unrest characterizing the current political landscape in the United States. By betraying his artifices, Beloufa interferes with the viewer's tendency to suspend disbelief, both creating and denying an all-encompassing fiction.   Algerian and French, Neil Beloufa was born 1985 in Paris. Beloufa studied at the École des Beaux Arts de Paris (ensba), at the Art Decoratifs de Paris (ensad), at Cooper Union in New York and at CalArts, Valencia. Beloufa's work has been exhibited internationally, including the ITCA 2008 - Prague International Triennial of Contemporary Art, Prague; 12th Biennial of the Moving Image, Geneva; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Dumbo Art Center, Brooklyn; The Soap Factory, Minneapolis; Fachhochschule-Bielefeld, Bielefeld; NCCA - National center of contemporary Arts, Moscow; and was awarded the "Arte Prize for Best European Short Film" at the 54th Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage, "Dialogpreis" by the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the European Media Art Festival. Jarrett Gregory is a Curatorial Assistant at the New Museum, New York, working most recently on the exhibitions After Nature, and Paul Chan: The 7 Lights. Previously, she was the Curatorial Assistant to the Chief Curator at the Whitney Museum, working on Lawrence Weiner's retrospective, and was the Assistant Coordinator of the 2006 Whitney Biennial. She has a degree in Art History from  Vassar College. Please check out Neil's work on PAM here. Or his website at www.neilbeloufa.com

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